The Rabbit ( 兔) is the fourth in the twelve-year periodic sequence (cycle) of animals that appear in the

Chinese zodiac The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year (or duodenary) cycle. The zodiac is very important in traditional ...

related to the

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. The Year of the Rabbit is associated with the Earthly Branch

symbol A symbol is a mark, Sign (semiotics), sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, physical object, object, or wikt:relationship, relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by cr ...

卯. the element Wood in Wuxing theory and within

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the Liver Yin and the emotions and virtues of kindness and hope. In the Vietnamese zodiac and the

Gurung Gurung (exonym; ) or Tamu (endonym; Gurung language, Gurung: ) are a Tibetan people, Tibetan ethnic group living in the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal. Gurungs speak Tamu kyi which is a Sino-Tibetan language derived from the ...

zodiac The zodiac is a belt-shaped region of the sky that extends approximately 8° north and south celestial latitude of the ecliptic – the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year. Within this zodiac ...

, the cat takes the place of the

rabbit Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas). They are familiar throughout the world as a small herbivore, a prey animal, a domesticated ...

. In the Malay

, the mousedeer takes the place of the rabbit.

Years and elements

People born within these date ranges can be said to have been born in the "Year of the Rabbit", while also bearing the following

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sign:

Basic astrological associations

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Years and elements

Basic astrological associations

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