Birth year lookup

What Vietnamese zodiac sign is 1998?

People born in 1998 are Mậu Dần (Year of the Tiger), with the nạp âm element Thành Đầu Thổ (Earth of the City Wall). The Mậu Dần year runs from Tết on 28 January 1998 to 15 February 1999.

Calendar and astronomy Stem-branch, nạp âm, the Tết dates and ages are computed; the Kua number and age matches are divination conventions.

What if you were born in January or February 1998?

The sign follows the lunar year, which turns at Tết, not on 1 January. Anyone born from 1 January 1998 to 27 January 1998 still belongs to the Đinh Sửu year (1997); anyone born from 1 January 1999 to 15 February 1999 still belongs to Mậu Dần. Convert a birth date to the lunar calendar.

How old is someone born in 1998 in 2026?

Someone born in the solar year 1998 turns 28 on their birthday in 2026. The East Asian (tuổi mụ) age of Mậu Dần in 2026 is 29: it counts one year at birth and adds one at every Tết.

What is the Kua of someone born in 1998?

Under the Eight Mansions (Bát Trạch) school, a man born in Mậu Dần has the Kua Khôn (Kun), West group; a woman Tốn (Xun), East group. The Kua is worked out from the lunar year and sex, and is used to choose a house facing. See the eight directions for a Kua.

Which signs match Mậu Dần 1998, and which to avoid?

In the Vietnamese folk table, Dần is in Three Harmony with Ngọ, Tuất and Six Harmony with Hợi; it clashes with Thân and is harmed by Tỵ. Hợi is both Six Harmony and Four Clash with Dần: the two tables are separate conventions and contradict each other on this pair. No general rule says which one prevails, so this page does not pick a side.

The Three Harmonies, Four Clashes and Six Harms table is a common folk convention, not the only reckoning. Some schools also weigh the Heavenly Stems and the nạp âm element before calling a pair harmonious or clashing.