- Animal
- 🐇 Rabbit (兔)
- Element
- Water 水 · Yin
- Stem & Branch
- 癸卯 · Guǐ Mǎo
- Year starts
- January 22, 2023 (Lunar New Year)
- Year ends
- February 9, 2024
- Age in 2027
- turns 4
- 2027 Tai Sui
- Three Harmony with Tai Sui
The Water Rabbit personality
A softer Rabbit with sharp instincts, flexible thinking, and quiet social skill.
The Water Rabbit stands out from other Rabbit years by being more fluid, observant, and emotionally nuanced. Rabbit is already polite, careful, and tuned in to social atmosphere; Yin Water adds flexibility, subtle intelligence, and a stronger inner world. Compared with a Wood Rabbit’s idealism, a Fire Rabbit’s sparkle, an Earth Rabbit’s steadiness, or a Metal Rabbit’s firmness, the Water Rabbit tends to read the room fastest and adapt with the least fuss.
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Best matches and clashes
Six Harmony partner: 🐇 Rabbit & 🐕 Dog. Three Harmony partners: 🐇 Rabbit & 🐐 Goat, 🐇 Rabbit & 🐖 Pig. Clash: 🐇 Rabbit & 🐓 Rooster.
A Rabbit born in 2023 in the 2027 Fire Goat year
2027 is Three Harmony with Tai Sui for the Rabbit. See the month-by-month forecast in Rabbit horoscope 2027.
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What Chinese zodiac is 2023?
2023 is the Year of the Water Rabbit (癸卯, Guǐ Mǎo). It runs from Lunar New Year on January 22, 2023 to February 9, 2024.
What element is 2023 in Chinese astrology?
Water (水), in its Yin form. The year's Heavenly Stem is 癸 and its Earthly Branch is 卯 (Rabbit).
Is someone born in January 2023 a Rabbit?
Born in January or early February 2023, before January 22, 2023? Then your sign is the Water Tiger of 2022.
Who is a Water Rabbit compatible with?
Traditionally the Rabbit pairs best with the Dog, Goat, Pig and finds the Rooster most challenging.
What does 2027 mean for someone born in 2023?
2027 is the Fire Goat year. For the Rabbit it is Three Harmony with Tai Sui. A person born in 2023 turns 4 in 2027.
Dates are computed from the Chinese lunar calendar (Lunar New Year). Some BaZi practitioners start the year at Lichun (around February 4) instead. Updated 2026-11-05.