Rooster (zodiac)

Rooster
"Rooster, Chicken" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
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 (雞) character for rooster
Chinese paper cutting

The Rooster (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: /) 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 .

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.