Zodiac compatibility 1 / 12 · Rat (子)
Which animals pair with the Rat? By the fixed branch tables: 3 closest (the six-harmony partner and the two trine peers), 4 strained (clash, harm, break, punishment), and 4 with no fixed relation. **Every relation here is a lookup, not a score — this page gives no compatibility percentages.**
Computed row by row: every fixed-table relation between the Rat and the other eleven animals (plus its own sign). One animal can appear on several tables — tables are independent, and this page lists them all side by side.
| Animal | Branch | Relation(s) | Group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (this page) | 子 Zi | same branch | same sign |
| 丑 Ox | 丑 Chou | six harmony (→土) | closest |
| 寅 Tiger | 寅 Yin | none | no fixed relation |
| 卯 Rabbit | 卯 Mao | punishment · 无礼之刑 | strained |
| 辰 Dragon | 辰 Chen | trine (水) | closest |
| 巳 Snake | 巳 Si | none | no fixed relation |
| 午 Horse | 午 Wu | clash | strained |
| 未 Goat | 未 Wei | harm | strained |
| 申 Monkey | 申 Shen | trine (水) | closest |
| 酉 Rooster | 酉 You | break | strained |
| 戌 Dog | 戌 Xu | none | no fixed relation |
| 亥 Pig | 亥 Hai | none | no fixed relation |
Six harmony — folk tradition calls it the secret friend — is the only one-to-one union in the six tables: for the Rat it is 丑 Ox, combining into 土. The trine is a group of three: the Rat sits in the Water trine with 申 Monkey and 辰 Dragon. These three are what tradition calls the best matches — a table fact, not a personality claim.
Clash 午 Horse, harm 未 Goat, break 酉 Rooster, punishment 卯 Rabbit. The four tables are independent and can stack, so the strained group is a different size for every animal.
Break is the least-cited of the six tables; this site lists it like clash and harm, with no fortune-telling added.
Six harmony, trine, clash, harm, break and punishment are **fixed tables**: a pair is either on a table or it is not. Any number like 92% compatible invents precision that the tables do not have — dressing a structural relation up as a statistical one. This site prints all six tables and the basis for every row classification, so you can check every cell yourself. Whether these relations feel good in real life is not a question any table can answer.
Open the Rat zodiac page (year table, lichun boundary, fan tai sui) →
Every enumerable component of ba zi has its own page here. Each page is computed by the same engine and can be checked item by item — none of it is a personality table.