1933 Chinese Zodiac: Water Rooster

01 / Check the boundary

What is my Chinese zodiac if I was born in 1933?

Two zodiac signs fall within the Gregorian year 1933. 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.

1933 birth dates and zodiac signs
Gregorian birthday	Animal & year element
January 1, 1933 – January 25, 1933	Water Monkey 猴
January 26, 1933 – December 31, 1933	Water Rooster 鸡

The full 1933 lunar year continues into 1934, through February 13, 1934. A birthday on January 25, 1933 belongs to the Monkey; a birthday one day later, on January 26, 1933, belongs to the Rooster.

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02 / The story of the year

What kind of Rooster is 1933?

1933 is a Water Rooster year. Its stem-branch name is 癸酉 (guǐ-yǒu): the heavenly stem 癸 carries yin water, and the earthly branch 酉 corresponds to the Rooster.

Zodiac animal: Rooster · 鸡
Year element: Water
Stem & branch: 癸酉 · guǐ-yǒu
Lunar year length: 384 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 1933. 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

1933 lunar calendar at a glance

This Rooster year contains 13 lunar months and 384 days. Month 5 repeats as a leap month, starting June 23, 1933. A leap month keeps the same animal and year element. The table follows the full lunar year, so its final months extend into 1934.

Lunar months of 1933: Gregorian start and end dates
Lunar month	Begins	Ends	Days
Month 1	January 26, 1933	February 23, 1933	29
Month 2	February 24, 1933	March 25, 1933	30
Month 3	March 26, 1933	April 24, 1933	30
Month 4	April 25, 1933	May 23, 1933	29
Month 5	May 24, 1933	June 22, 1933	30
Leap month 5	June 23, 1933	July 22, 1933	30
Month 6	July 23, 1933	August 20, 1933	29
Month 7	August 21, 1933	September 19, 1933	30
Month 8	September 20, 1933	October 18, 1933	29
Month 9	October 19, 1933	November 17, 1933	30
Month 10	November 18, 1933	December 16, 1933	29
Month 11	December 17, 1933	January 14, 1934	29
Month 12	January 15, 1934	February 13, 1934	30

04 / Follow the cycle

Other Years of the Rooster

The Rooster returns every 12 years; the same Water 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 1921Metal 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.