Zodiac compatibility 10 / 12 · Rooster (酉)

Rooster compatibility — fixed-table relations with the other eleven animals

Which animals pair with the Rooster? By the fixed branch tables: 3 closest (the six-harmony partner and the two trine peers), 3 strained (clash, harm, break, punishment), and 5 with no fixed relation. **Every relation here is a lookup, not a score — this page gives no compatibility percentages.**

Computed facts

AnimalRooster You · position 10 / 12
Closest (3) Dragon (six harmony, →金) + Snake, Ox (trine, Metal)
Strained (3) Rabbit, Dog, Rat
No fixed relation5 animals
Punishmentself-punishment (Chen, Wu, You, Hai)

The full 12-row relation table

Computed row by row: every fixed-table relation between the Rooster 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.

AnimalBranchRelation(s)Group
Rat Zibreakstrained
Ox Choutrine (金)closest
Tiger Yinnoneno fixed relation
Rabbit Maoclashstrained
Dragon Chensix harmony (→金)closest
Snake Sitrine (金)closest
Horse Wunoneno fixed relation
Goat Weinoneno fixed relation
Monkey Shennoneno fixed relation
Rooster (this page) Youself-punishmentsame sign
Dog Xuharmstrained
Pig Hainoneno fixed relation

The three closest: one six harmony, two trine peers

Six harmony — folk tradition calls it the secret friend — is the only one-to-one union in the six tables: for the Rooster it is Dragon, combining into 金. The trine is a group of three: the Rooster sits in the Metal trine with Snake and Ox. These three are what tradition calls the best matches — a table fact, not a personality claim.

The 3 strained: clash, harm, break, punishment

Clash Rabbit, harm Dog, break Rat. 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.

Why this page has no compatibility percentage

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.

What this page deliberately does not do. The zodiac is the one part of this system that the popular market has turned into a horoscope: a fixed personality per animal, a fortune per year, and a lucky charm sold to fix the year that clashes with yours. This site publishes none of that. What is here is a calendar relation: which Gregorian years belong to this animal, the exact minute each of those years begins, and which animal-branches stand in a defined relation to it. Those relations are fixed tables — the same six-harmony, clash, harm and break tables used everywhere else on this site — and not one of them carries a fortune score. In particular, "offending the year" (fan tai sui) is a structural fact, not a curse, and this site sells no remedy for it.

FAQ

Why is there no match score for Rooster compatibility?
Because zodiac relations are six fixed lookup tables (six harmony, trine, clash, harm, break, punishment). Being on a table is a checkable fact, not a probability. A percentage would imply a hidden scoring system beyond the tables — this site does not invent one.
Which three animals are the best matches for the Rooster?
By the tables: six harmony Dragon (辰) (combining into Metal), and the trine peers Snake (巳) and Ox (丑) (Metal trine). These are the only harmony relations the Rooster has; no other animal shares a union table with it.
Is the clash animal of the Rooster always a bad match?
Clash, harm, break and punishment are structural relations between year branches, listed here as tables. They do not mean a relationship is doomed: some pairs appear on several tables at once (Tiger and Pig are both harmony and break), and schools handle that differently — this page shows both columns. Real compatibility is not decided by one year-branch table.
What about the Rooster with another Rooster?
Same sign has no harmony or clash, but 酉 is one of the four self-punishing branches (Chen, Wu, You, Hai), so tradition records Rooster with Rooster as self-punishment.
Does this page replace a full chart comparison?
No. The zodiac is only the year branch. This page answers which fixed-table relations hold between two year branches. A full comparison reads the pairwise relations across both entire charts (six stem pairs and six branch pairs) — that is what the compatibility calculator does, and it likewise refuses to output a match percentage.

Neighbouring compatibility pages

Monkey ←  ·  → Dog

Open the Rooster zodiac page (year table, lichun boundary, fan tai sui) →

Back to the Chinese zodiac index →

Reference index

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.