Birth year lookup

2004: what element and Vietnamese zodiac sign?

People born in 2004 have the element Water (nạp âm Tuyền Trung Thủy (Water in the Spring)) and are Giáp Thân, Year of the Monkey. The Giáp Thân year runs from Tết on 22 January 2004 to 8 February 2005. Born from 1 January 2004 to 21 January 2004? That is Quý Mùi, not Giáp Thân.

What if you were born in January or February 2004?

The sign follows the lunar year, which turns at Tết, not on 1 January. Anyone born from 1 January 2004 to 21 January 2004 still belongs to the Quý Mùi year (2003); anyone born from 1 January 2005 to 8 February 2005 still belongs to Giáp Thân. Convert a birth date to the lunar calendar.

How old is someone born in 2004 in 2026?

Someone born in the solar year 2004 turns 22 on their birthday in 2026. The East Asian (tuổi mụ) age of Giáp Thân in 2026 is 23: it counts one year at birth and adds one at every Tết.

What is the Kua of someone born in 2004?

Under the Eight Mansions (Bát Trạch) school, a man born in Giáp Thân has the Kua Khôn (Kun), West group; a woman Khảm (Kan), 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 2004 in folk belief?

In the Five Elements convention common in Vietnam, Tuyền Trung Thủy (Water in the Spring) belongs to Water, so it is said to suit blue, black, and the colours of Metal, the element that generates Water: white, silver grey, metallic. The directions of Water are North; trades usually assigned to it are transport and logistics, fisheries, tourism, beverages. 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 Giáp Thân 2004, and which to avoid?

In the Vietnamese folk table, Thân is in Three Harmony with Tý, Thìn and Six Harmony with Tỵ; it clashes with Dần and is harmed by Hợi. Tỵ is both Six Harmony and Four Clash with Thân: 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.