Birth year lookup

1998: what element and Vietnamese zodiac sign?

People born in 1998 have the element Earth (nạp âm Thành Đầu Thổ (Earth of the City Wall)) and are Mậu Dần, Year of the Tiger. The Mậu Dần year runs from Tết on 28 January 1998 to 15 February 1999. Born from 1 January 1998 to 27 January 1998? That is Đinh Sửu, not Mậu Dần.

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 colours, directions and trades go with 1998 in folk belief?

In the Five Elements convention common in Vietnam, Thành Đầu Thổ (Earth of the City Wall) belongs to Earth, so it is said to suit yellow, earth brown, and the colours of Fire, the element that generates Earth: red, orange, purple. The directions of Earth are Southwest, Northeast; trades usually assigned to it are real estate, construction and building materials, ceramics, agricultural land and produce. This is convention, not calculation: the books differ on colours and trades, and no study has shown that choosing by element changes outcomes. A house facing under Bát Trạch is worked out from the Kua above, not from the element. Kua and directions by birth year.

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, Six Combinations, Four Clashes and Six Harms table is a common folk convention, not the only reckoning. The Four Clashes in groups of four is a Vietnamese folk way of matching ages; the old texts call only the six opposite pairs a clash. Some schools also weigh the Heavenly Stems and the Na Yin element before calling a pair harmonious or clashing.