1921 Chinese Zodiac: Metal Rooster

01 / Check the boundary

What is my Chinese zodiac if I was born in 1921?

Two zodiac signs fall within the Gregorian year 1921. Choose the row containing your birthday. These dates include both the first and last day; the animal changes at Chinese New Year, not on January 1.

1921 birth dates and zodiac signs
Gregorian birthday	Animal & year element
January 1, 1921 – February 7, 1921	Metal Monkey 猴
February 8, 1921 – December 31, 1921	Metal Rooster 鸡

The full 1921 lunar year continues into 1922, through January 27, 1922. A birthday on February 7, 1921 belongs to the Monkey; a birthday one day later, on February 8, 1921, belongs to the Rooster.

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02 / The story of the year

What kind of Rooster is 1921?

1921 is a Metal Rooster year. Its stem-branch name is 辛酉 (xīn-yǒu): the heavenly stem 辛 carries yin metal, and the earthly branch 酉 corresponds to the Rooster.

Zodiac animal: Rooster · 鸡
Year element: Metal
Stem & branch: 辛酉 · xīn-yǒu
Lunar year length: 354 days

Rooster personality in tradition

The Rooster is linked with watchfulness and the arrival of a new day. Jī is the general Chinese word for chicken.

The phrase “attentive & expressive” describes a traditional association with this animal, rather than a rule about everyone born in 1921. The year element is one part of the calendar; it does not establish a person's complete five-elements or Bāzì chart.

我属鸡。

Wǒ shǔ jī. “I was born in the Year of the Rooster.”

Rooster compatibility in folklore

Rooster, Ox and Snake form a traditional harmony group of three. Rabbit sits opposite Rooster, six places away in the twelve-animal cycle. These describe symbolic positions, not evidence of who will make a good partner.

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03 / A closer look at the dates

1921 lunar calendar at a glance

This Rooster year contains 12 lunar months and 354 days. There is no leap lunar month in this year. A leap month keeps the same animal and year element. The table follows the full lunar year, so its final months extend into 1922.

Lunar months of 1921: Gregorian start and end dates
Lunar month	Begins	Ends	Days
Month 1	February 8, 1921	March 9, 1921	30
Month 2	March 10, 1921	April 7, 1921	29
Month 3	April 8, 1921	May 7, 1921	30
Month 4	May 8, 1921	June 5, 1921	29
Month 5	June 6, 1921	July 4, 1921	29
Month 6	July 5, 1921	August 3, 1921	30
Month 7	August 4, 1921	September 1, 1921	29
Month 8	September 2, 1921	September 30, 1921	29
Month 9	October 1, 1921	October 30, 1921	30
Month 10	October 31, 1921	November 28, 1921	29
Month 11	November 29, 1921	December 28, 1921	30
Month 12	December 29, 1921	January 27, 1922	30

04 / Follow the cycle

Other Years of the Rooster

The Rooster returns every 12 years; the same Metal Rooster combination returns every 60. These are the other Rooster years in our 1901–2100 directory. Their New Year dates differ, so open a year to check its exact birthday boundary.

1909Earth Rooster 1933Water Rooster 1945Wood Rooster 1957Fire Rooster 1969Earth Rooster 1981Metal Rooster 1993Water Rooster 2005Wood Rooster 2017Fire Rooster 2029Earth Rooster 2041Metal Rooster 2053Water Rooster 2065Wood Rooster 2077Fire Rooster 2089Earth Rooster

Sources & calendar convention

Dates are calculated from our local lunar-month dataset. The links below provide the Observatory’s calendar for this Gregorian year and an explanation of the stem-branch cycle. Cultural interpretations are introductory folklore, not predictions.