Horse (zodiac)

Horse
"Horse" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Gilesma3
IPA[mà]
Hakka
Romanization
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationmáah
Jyutpingmaa5
IPA[ma˩˧]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Old Chinese
Baxter (1992)*mraʔ
Baxter–Sagart (2014)*mˤraʔ
Zodiac horse, showing the (⾺) character for horse

The Horse () is the seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. There is a long tradition of the Horse in Chinese mythology. Certain characteristics of the Horse nature are supposed to be typical of or to be associated with either a year of the Horse and its events, or in regard to the personality of someone born in such a year. Horse aspects can also enter by other chronomantic factors or measures, such as hourly. The year of the horse is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol .