1915 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Wood Rabbit
Born in 1915? You’re a Wood Rabbit — but only if your birthday falls on February 14, 1915 or later. The Rabbit year ran from February 14, 1915 through February 2, 1916.
Start of Spring landed nine days ahead of the lunar new year this time, so the two calendars disagree for over a week in early February. We settle that stretch first, then work through the rest of what makes this particular Rabbit year — a Wood one — different from the other four.
Born in 1915? The quick answer
Wood Tiger
Still the 1914 zodiac year, which did not close until February 13. A birthday in the first six weeks of 1915 lands here, in Tiger, not Rabbit.
Wood Rabbit
The 1915 zodiac year, stem-branch 乙卯. It runs into the first days of February 1916 — a child born there is still a Wood Rabbit, not yet a Fire Dragon.
1915 at a glance
| Detail | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Zodiac animal | Rabbit (兔 tù) |
| Element | Wood (Yin) |
| Stem-branch | 乙卯 (yǐ mǎo) |
| Exact dates | February 14, 1915 – February 2, 1916 |
| Sign before | Wood Tiger (until February 13, 1915) |
| Sign after | Fire Dragon (from February 3, 1916) |
| Age in 2026 (if born during calendar year 1915) | 110 or 111 |
| Traditional allies | Goat, Pig (trine), Dog (six-harmony) |
| Clash sign | Rooster |
Born in early February 1915?
On the lunar-year convention this page uses — the standard for looking up a birth-year sign — the Rabbit year runs from February 14, 1915 to February 2, 1916. Anyone born between January 1 and February 13, 1915 is a Wood Tiger carried over from 1914. At the other end, a birth in the first two days of February 1916 still counts as a 1915 Wood Rabbit, not yet a Fire Dragon.
Start of Spring (Lìchūn) fell on February 5, 1915, nine days ahead of the lunar new year on February 14 — both dates confirmed in the Hong Kong Observatory’s 1915 almanac. Many BaZi practitioners use Lìchūn, rather than the lunar new year, as the boundary, so births from February 6 to February 13 already read as Wood Rabbit under that solar convention while still counting as Wood Tiger under the lunar convention this page follows — a nine-day window, one of the wider gaps among this site’s year pages. A February 5 birth itself needs the exact time and place, because Lìchūn begins at a specific moment during that day. The January–February boundary guide sets both methods side by side.
What a Wood Rabbit actually is
“Rabbit” fixes the animal; the element fixes the year. The twelve animals and the five elements run on separate wheels, and Wood meets Rabbit only once in every sixty years. 1915 is written 乙卯 (yǐ mǎo), a Yin Wood year. Tradition assigns the Rabbit’s own branch, 卯, to Wood as well — stem and branch land on the same element, the same pattern this site has already covered once for Fire (1906’s 丙午), once for Metal (1921’s 辛酉) and once for Earth (1919’s 己未). 1915 fills in Wood.
There’s a second layer worth noting here: the year directly before this one, 1914’s 甲寅 Wood Tiger, is built the same way — a Wood stem sitting on a Wood branch. That’s not a coincidence of these two pages in particular; 甲寅 is the 51st of the sixty stem-branch combinations and 乙卯 is the 52nd, and the cycle is built so that stem and branch always advance together. Two same-element years landing back to back like this is a structural feature of where 1914 and 1915 happen to sit in that sixty-step sequence, not something that recurs every year.
In folklore the Rabbit is read as careful, quick-witted and quietly self-protective — an animal that reads a situation before committing to it. Wood, doubled here rather than balanced against another element, is said to sharpen that watchfulness into something more decisive: growth without much hesitation behind it. Read that as the sketch tradition offers, not a finding about anyone. Plenty of people born in 1915 fit none of it.
An idiom about a rabbit that only ran into the stump once
Long before this page needed a name for a year that leans too hard on one element, Chinese already had a story about someone who leaned too hard on one stroke of luck. 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù) — “guarding a tree stump, waiting for a rabbit” — comes from Han Feizi, chapter 五蠹 (Five Vermin): a farmer in the state of Song had a tree stump standing in his field; one day a rabbit, running fast, crashed into the stump and broke its neck. The farmer set down his plow and sat by the stump, hoping another rabbit would come the same way. It never did, and he became the laughing stock of the whole state. The original line — “兔不可复得，而身为宋国笑”, “he could not get a second rabbit, and was mocked by all of Song” — is preserved in the chapter itself, discussed in reference entries such as this summary of the passage.
Modern usage keeps Han Feizi’s original point: don’t mistake a one-off event for a method, and don’t keep doing nothing while hoping luck repeats itself. It’s a caution about relying on a single stroke of fortune — a fitting shape for a Rabbit-year idiom, and a very different angle on the animal than the trine and six-harmony language below.
The pillar 1915 shares with 1975
The stem-branch of 1915, 乙卯, is one of the sixty combinations on the sexagenary cycle, and it comes round on a fixed sixty-year beat:
| Wood Rabbit year | Age in 2026 for calendar-year births |
|---|---|
| 1855 | A nineteenth-century cohort; no longer living |
| 1915 | 110 or 111 years old |
| 1975 | 50 or 51 years old |
| 2035 | Not yet reached |
A person born during the 1975 Wood Rabbit year carries the same 乙卯 pillar as someone born during the 1915 Wood Rabbit year — same stem and branch, one full sixty-year turn apart. The Wood Rabbit element page follows what that shared pillar is traditionally held to mean.
Traditional Rabbit pairings
In the traditional groupings, the Rabbit forms a three-harmony trine with the Goat and Pig, pairs with the Dog in six-harmony, and stands opposite the Rooster in the clash. These animal relationships are fixed, and the Wood element does not change them; the Rabbit compatibility guide works through each pairing in full.
The years on either side
| Year | Sign | Zodiac dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | Wood Tiger | – Feb 13, 1915 |
| 1915 | Wood Rabbit | Feb 14, 1915 – Feb 2, 1916 |
| 1916 | Fire Dragon | from Feb 3, 1916 |
1914 has its own page here, so the Tiger year right before this one is one click away. 1916 has its own page here too now, so the Fire Dragon year right after this one is one click away as well — the 1916 Fire Dragon page picks up where this one leaves off, and the full years chart maps every sign back to its birth year in the meantime.
1915 Chinese zodiac: common questions
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for 1915?
1915 is a Rabbit year — the Wood Rabbit — for anyone born on or after February 14, 1915.
What are the exact 1915 Wood Rabbit dates?
February 14, 1915 to February 2, 1916. Anything before February 14, 1915 belongs to the Wood Tiger year of 1914.
What element is 1915 in the Chinese zodiac?
Wood. The full stem-branch name is 乙卯 (yǐ mǎo), a Yin Wood year, and the Rabbit’s own branch element is also Wood, so the stem and branch match rather than generating or opposing each other.
Is everyone born in 1915 a Wood Rabbit?
No. Births from January 1 to February 13, 1915 fall in the previous Wood Tiger year. And someone born in the first two days of February 1916 is still a 1915 Wood Rabbit.
How does Start of Spring affect the 1915 boundary?
Start of Spring fell on February 5, 1915, nine days before the lunar new year on February 14. Births from February 6 to February 13 already count as Wood Rabbit under the solar (BaZi) convention some practitioners use, but remain Wood Tiger under the lunar convention this page defaults to. A February 5 birth requires the exact time and location, because Lìchūn begins at a specific moment during that day.
What years share the 1915 Wood Rabbit pillar?
The 乙卯 Wood Rabbit pillar returns every sixty years: 1855, 1915 and 1975. A person born during the 1975 Wood Rabbit year shares the exact stem-branch with someone born during the 1915 Wood Rabbit year.
How old is someone born in 1915 in 2026?
110 or 111 in 2026, depending on whether their birthday has passed.
Looking this up for someone born in 1915?
A public page stops at the shared facts. If a birth year this old brought you here, it’s usually attached to a name — a grandparent, a family register, a line in someone’s genealogy research. Two things carry that further than a page like this can:
Couple Compatibility ReportThe same treatment for two birth years at once, laid side by side rather than reduced to a score — useful for a couple further back in the family record.See the report →
Where to go next
Editorial note
The calendar side of this page — the February 14, 1915 start, the February 2, 1916 close, the February 5 Start of Spring, and the 乙卯 (yǐ mǎo) stem-branch — can be checked against the Hong Kong Observatory’s 1915 almanac or any sexagenary table, and is cross-checked against the neighboring 1916 almanac. The 守株待兔 idiom and its classical source are documented in the Han Feizi chapter cited above. Everything touching character, compatibility and fortune is symbolic tradition, shared for cultural interest. It is not a prediction, and it is not medical, financial or relationship advice.