2022 Chinese Zodiac
2022 is the Year of the Yang Water Tiger.
This Tiger year begins on Chinese New Year, February 1, 2022, and runs until the eve of the next lunar new year.
Born in January or early February 2022?
The zodiac animal changes on Chinese New Year, not January 1. If you were born before February 1, 2022, your sign is actually the Ox (the previous lunar year) — not the Tiger.
The element of 2022
💧 Yang Water — Water is intuition, empathy, and flexibility. It deepens an animal's emotional intelligence and persuasive charm, helping it flow around obstacles rather than through them. Water types connect easily, but can be impressionable and prone to drift.
People born in the Year of the Tiger
The Tiger is raw courage with a pulse. Magnetic, impulsive, and allergic to being controlled, Tigers charge at life and dare the world to keep up. They are natural rebels and protectors who feel injustice physically and act on it before thinking it through. People are drawn to a Tiger's heat — the confidence, the conviction, the sense that something is always about to happen — and just as often singed by it. A Tiger would rather lose spectacularly than win by playing small.
Tiger lucky colors & numbers
| Lucky colors | Orange, Grey, Blue |
|---|---|
| Lucky numbers | 1, 3, 4 |
| Native guardian (本命佛) | Akasagarbha Bodhisattva (虚空藏菩萨) |
Other Years of the Tiger
Frequently asked questions
What Chinese zodiac animal is 2022?
2022 is the year of the Tiger — more precisely the Yang Water Tiger. The Tiger year begins on Chinese New Year, February 1, 2022.
If I was born in January 2022, what is my sign?
If you were born before February 1, 2022, you are actually a Ox (the previous lunar year), not a Tiger. The animal only changes on Chinese New Year's Day.
What element is 2022?
The 2022 year carries the Yang Water element, drawn from the year's Heavenly Stem in the sexagenary cycle. That makes it a Yang Water Tiger.