Rooster (zodiac)

Rooster
"Rooster, Chicken" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese雞
Simplified Chinese鸡
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinjī
Wade–Gileschi1
IPA[tɕí]
Hakka
Romanizationkiê
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationgāi
Jyutpinggai1
IPA[kɐj˥]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJkoe
Old Chinese
Baxter (1992)*ke
Baxter–Sagart (2014)*kˤe
Zodiac rooster, showing the jī (雞) character for rooster
Chinese paper cutting

The Rooster (simplified Chinese: 鸡; traditional Chinese: 雞/鷄) is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Rooster is represented by the Earthly Branch symbol 酉.

In the Tibetan zodiac and the Gurung zodiac, the bird is in place of the Rooster.[1][2]

  1. ^ ricardobaddouh (28 January 2014). "Tibetan Astrology – Table of Year-Animal-Element". AHMC. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  2. ^ Arina Sherchan (11 July 2010). "Tamu (Gurung) Losar Festival". ESC Nepal. Retrieved 9 June 2017.