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The fifth year, <strong>Marong<\/strong> (\u0e21\u0e30\u0e42\u0e23\u0e07), is the exception, and Thai sources do not agree on a single label for it: the Royal Institute&#8217;s Thai dictionary defines its emblem as a &#8220;great serpent,&#8221; Thai folk belief commonly identifies it with the <strong>Naga<\/strong> (a serpent deity from Buddhist and Hindu mythology), and Thailand&#8217;s own Ministry of Culture lists it plainly as <strong>Dragon<\/strong> (\u0e21\u0e31\u0e07\u0e01\u0e23) alongside the other eleven animals.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"tzl-note\">\n    <span class=\"mark\"><i class=\"ph ph-warning-circle\"><\/i><\/span>\n    <div>\n      <h3>A cycle with three layers, not one<\/h3>\n      <p>This page is about how the twelve-animal cycle was localized as it reached Thailand. It is not part of the Chinese system as observed in China, and it is not a purely indigenous Thai invention either \u2014 a useful way to understand it is as a combination of a Chinese-derived animal cycle, a Sanskrit-rooted calendrical name, and Thai religious imagery around the fifth year.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"tzl-section\">\n    <h2>Three layers in one cycle<\/h2>\n    <p>The twelve-year structure itself \u2014 one animal governing each year, repeating in a fixed order \u2014 closely matches the animal cycle used in China. The Thai name for the system, <em>pi naksat<\/em>, comes from a different linguistic root: modern Thai \u0e19\u0e31\u0e01\u0e29\u0e31\u0e15\u0e23 is read <em>naksat<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/th.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%A3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed by Thai Wiktionary&#8217;s own pronunciation entry<\/a>), and <a href=\"https:\/\/zodiatlas.org\/zodiac\/thai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traces back to the Sanskrit nak\u1e63atra<\/a>, &#8220;lunar mansion&#8221; or &#8220;star,&#8221; with Pali <em>nakkhatta<\/em> as the related Pali form of the same root \u2014 a term from the Indian astronomical tradition that also shaped much of Thai timekeeping. And at the point in the cycle where China names the Dragon, Thai sources vary between a great serpent, the Naga, and Dragon itself \u2014 the subject of the next section.<\/p>\n    <p>A useful way to understand the modern Thai system, then, is as a combination of cultural histories rather than a single clean lineage: a twelve-animal cycle closely related to China&#8217;s, Thai terminology whose astronomical vocabulary has Sanskrit and Pali roots, and Thai religious imagery in which the fifth sign can be represented as a great serpent, a naga, or \u2014 especially in modern usage \u2014 simply a dragon.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"tzl-section\">\n    <h2>The twelve years, Thai side<\/h2>\n    <p>Reading the cycle around, <a href=\"https:\/\/jamkham.com\/blog\/thai-zodiac-animals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Thai name for each year<\/a> looks like this. Eleven years keep an animal that matches the Chinese list directly; the fifth is the one year where Thai sources themselves disagree on the animal word.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n      <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n        <thead>\n          <tr><th>Order<\/th><th>Thai year name<\/th><th>Meaning<\/th><th>Chinese animal<\/th><th>Same as China?<\/th><\/tr>\n        <\/thead>\n        <tbody>\n          <tr><td>1<\/td><td><em>Chuat<\/em> (\u0e0a\u0e27\u0e14)<\/td><td>Rat<\/td><td>Rat<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>2<\/td><td><em>Chalou<\/em> (\u0e09\u0e25\u0e39)<\/td><td>Ox<\/td><td>Ox<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>3<\/td><td><em>Khan<\/em> (\u0e02\u0e32\u0e25)<\/td><td>Tiger<\/td><td>Tiger<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>4<\/td><td><em>Tho<\/em> (\u0e40\u0e16\u0e32\u0e30)<\/td><td>Rabbit<\/td><td>Rabbit<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>5<\/td><td><em>Marong<\/em> (\u0e21\u0e30\u0e42\u0e23\u0e07)<\/td><td><strong>Great Serpent \/ Naga<\/strong> \u2014 also called Dragon<\/td><td>Dragon<\/td><td><strong>Disputed<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>6<\/td><td><em>Maseng<\/em> (\u0e21\u0e30\u0e40\u0e2a\u0e47\u0e07)<\/td><td>Snake<\/td><td>Snake<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>7<\/td><td><em>Mamia<\/em> (\u0e21\u0e30\u0e40\u0e21\u0e35\u0e22)<\/td><td>Horse<\/td><td>Horse<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>8<\/td><td><em>Mamae<\/em> (\u0e21\u0e30\u0e41\u0e21)<\/td><td>Goat<\/td><td>Goat \/ Sheep<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>9<\/td><td><em>Wok<\/em> (\u0e27\u0e2d\u0e01)<\/td><td>Monkey<\/td><td>Monkey<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>10<\/td><td><em>Raka<\/em> (\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32)<\/td><td>Rooster<\/td><td>Rooster<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>11<\/td><td><em>Cho<\/em> (\u0e08\u0e2d)<\/td><td>Dog<\/td><td>Dog<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>12<\/td><td><em>Kun<\/em> (\u0e01\u0e38\u0e19)<\/td><td>Pig<\/td><td>Pig<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n        <\/tbody>\n      <\/table>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"tzl-muted\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.ac.th\/th\/article\/df2205dd-2f58-43f5-96f5-984e064e3bf6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lanna tradition of Northern Thailand<\/a>, a further regional variant swaps an elephant in for the Pig at the twelfth year \u2014 this is a local adaptation, not the mainstream national list, and sits alongside the fifth year&#8217;s disputed animal rather than changing it.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"tzl-section\">\n    <h2>Great serpent, Naga, or Dragon \u2014 Thai sources don&#8217;t fully agree<\/h2>\n    <p>Thailand&#8217;s own reference works do not converge on one label for the fifth year. <a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.orst.go.th\/?knowledges=%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%A3-%E0%B9%91%E0%B9%94-%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%A0%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%98%E0%B9%8C-%E0%B9%92%E0%B9%95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Institute of Thailand&#8217;s own reference page states<\/a> plainly that &#8220;\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e21\u0e30\u0e42\u0e23\u0e07 \u0e21\u0e35 \u0e07\u0e39\u0e43\u0e2b\u0e0d\u0e48 \u0e40\u0e1b\u0e47\u0e19\u0e40\u0e04\u0e23\u0e37\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e2b\u0e21\u0e32\u0e22&#8221; \u2014 &#8220;the year Marong has a great serpent (<em>ngu yai<\/em>) as its emblem&#8221; \u2014 without naming a specific deity. Thai folk belief commonly narrows that further to the <strong>Naga<\/strong> \u2014 in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/naga-Hindu-mythology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Britannica describes a naga<\/a> as &#8220;a minor deity taking the form of a very large snake,&#8221; a semidivine being rather than an ordinary animal. Yet Thailand&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.culture.go.th\/culture_th\/ewt_news.php?filename=i&amp;nid=5472\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Culture, in its own public cultural materials<\/a>, lists the fifth year plainly as <em>mangkorn<\/em> (\u0e21\u0e31\u0e07\u0e01\u0e23) \u2014 Dragon \u2014 alongside the other eleven animals, with no serpent framing at all. Naga imagery itself is not uniquely Thai: serpent beings by that name appear widely across South and Southeast Asian Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and Marong&#8217;s imagery draws on that broader well rather than a single fixed identity.<\/p>\n    <p>In everyday use, the distinctions blur further. Popular Thai media and casual conversation frequently just call Marong a &#8220;Dragon year&#8221; in the East Asian sense. None of the three labels \u2014 great serpent, Naga, Dragon \u2014 is simply wrong; they reflect different Thai sources describing the same year differently, not one correct translation with two popular errors.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"tzl-section\">\n    <h2>A pilgrimage tied to your birth year<\/h2>\n    <p>Thailand attaches something to the twelve-year cycle that has no equivalent on this site&#8217;s other country pages: a named Buddhist temple for each birth-year animal, most of them in the country&#8217;s north. <a href=\"https:\/\/thailand.go.th\/issue-focus-detail\/001_02_019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thailand&#8217;s official government tourism portal lists all twelve<\/a> \u2014 for example, Wat Phra That Doi Suthep in Chiang Mai for the Goat year, Wat Phra That Doi Tung in Chiang Rai for the Pig year, and Wat Phra Sing in Chiang Mai for the Dragon\/Naga year \u2014 each said to hold a Buddhist relic connected to that year&#8217;s sign.<\/p>\n    <p>The same <a href=\"https:\/\/thailand.go.th\/issue-focus-detail\/001_02_019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">government source<\/a> describes people traveling to the temple that matches their birth year &#8220;to make merit,&#8221; particularly around a twelve-year cycle birthday, in the belief that it helps their fortune or clears away bad luck already affecting them. This is a devotional practice tied to specific, identifiable places, documented here as cultural and religious practice \u2014 not a symbolic reading of personality, and not a factual claim about luck itself.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"tzl-note\">\n    <span class=\"mark\"><i class=\"ph ph-calendar-blank\"><\/i><\/span>\n    <div>\n      <h3>When does the Thai zodiac year actually change?<\/h3>\n      <p>There is no single rollover date used for every purpose in Thailand \u2014 this is a structural difference from China&#8217;s system, not an occasional exception. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finearts.go.th\/main\/view\/38963-%E0%B8%82%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%A3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thailand&#8217;s Fine Arts Department, under the Ministry of Culture, states<\/a> that the astrological convention changes the zodiac year on the first waxing day of the fifth lunar month (roughly April), while civil registration \u2014 the date recorded on birth certificates \u2014 follows the Royal Calendar&#8217;s first waxing day of the first lunar month instead, a different convention for a different purpose. Separately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thaizer.com\/animals-of-the-thai-zodiac-and-the-twelve-year-cycle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thaizer&#8217;s guide to the Thai zodiac<\/a> describes a widely cited folk convention that starts the cycle at Songkran, the Thai New Year, fixed around <strong>April 13<\/strong>, and notes that &#8220;some Thai Chinese communities may use the date of the Chinese New Year&#8221; instead. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persee.fr\/doc\/asean_0859-9009_2000_num_5_1_1665\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An academic study of this exact question<\/a>, published in the journal <em>As\u00e9anie<\/em>, found at least five different answers to when the year 2000 became a Great Serpent year in Thailand, concluding that the traditional calendar behind the zodiac cycle is now widely half-forgotten and inconsistently applied. Under the Songkran-based folk convention specifically, someone born in the roughly two-month gap between Chinese Lunar New Year and April 13 can land in a different Thai zodiac year than their Chinese zodiac year \u2014 but which convention applies depends on why the date is being asked in the first place.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"tzl-section\">\n    <h2>Thailand vs the rest of East and Southeast Asia<\/h2>\n    <p>Thailand&#8217;s one disputed year sits at the fifth position, where Chinese &#8220;Dragon&#8221; competes with &#8220;great serpent&#8221; and &#8220;Naga&#8221; in Thai sources themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/vietnamese-zodiac\/\">Vietnam<\/a> changes two animals at the second and fourth years (buffalo-for-ox, cat-for-rabbit) but keeps the Dragon itself, uncontested. <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/japanese-zodiac\/\">Japan<\/a> keeps the Dragon and instead substitutes a Wild Boar at the twelfth year. <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/korean-zodiac\/\">Korea<\/a> keeps the standard Chinese list at all twelve positions, with no substitutions documented. Thailand&#8217;s case is different from the cleaner animal substitutions seen in Vietnam and Japan: its fifth year is not simply one animal replacing another, but one inherited position carrying several overlapping Thai interpretations \u2014 great serpent, Naga, and Dragon.<\/p>\n    <p>A useful way to hold the four apart: Korea changes nothing, Japan changes the twelfth year, Vietnam changes the second and fourth years, and Thailand&#8217;s fifth year carries three competing labels rather than one settled substitution.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"tzl-faq\">\n    <details>\n      <summary>Is the Thai zodiac the same as the Chinese zodiac?<\/summary>\n      <p>Mostly. The same twelve-year cycle runs in the same order, and eleven of the twelve years share an animal with the Chinese list. The fifth year, Marong, is the exception: Thai sources describe it variously as a great serpent, the Naga, or plainly as Dragon, rather than settling on one label.<\/p>\n    <\/details>\n    <details>\n      <summary>Is Thailand&#8217;s fifth zodiac sign a Naga or a Dragon?<\/summary>\n      <p>Thai sources do not fully agree. The Royal Institute&#8217;s Thai dictionary defines the fifth year&#8217;s emblem as a &#8220;great serpent,&#8221; Thai folk belief often narrows that to the Naga, a serpent deity from Hindu and Buddhist mythology, and Thailand&#8217;s Ministry of Culture lists the same year plainly as Dragon in its own materials. Everyday Thai usage frequently just calls it a Dragon year.<\/p>\n    <\/details>\n    <details>\n      <summary>Does the Thai zodiac year start on the same day as Chinese New Year?<\/summary>\n      <p>Not by one single rule. Thailand&#8217;s Fine Arts Department records an astrological convention that changes the zodiac year on the first waxing day of the fifth lunar month (around April), while civil registration uses the first waxing day of the first lunar month instead. A separate folk convention ties the change to Songkran, around April 13. Academic research on this question has found at least five different answers for a single year, reflecting how inconsistently the underlying traditional calendar is now applied.<\/p>\n    <\/details>\n    <details>\n      <summary>What is &#8220;pi naksat&#8221;?<\/summary>\n      <p>Pi naksat (\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e19\u0e31\u0e01\u0e29\u0e31\u0e15\u0e23) is the modern Thai term for a zodiac year. Naksat derives from the Sanskrit nak\u1e63atra, meaning &#8220;lunar mansion&#8221; or &#8220;star&#8221; \u2014 a name from the Indian astronomical tradition, applied here to the same twelve-year animal cycle used in China.<\/p>\n    <\/details>\n    <details>\n      <summary>Is there a Thai tradition of visiting a temple for your birth-year animal?<\/summary>\n      <p>Yes. Thailand&#8217;s official tourism portal lists a specific Buddhist temple, mostly in the country&#8217;s north, for each of the twelve birth-year animals, each said to hold a relic connected to that year. Many Thais aim to visit their birth-year temple at least once, especially around a twelve-year cycle birthday, to make merit.<\/p>\n    <\/details>\n    <details>\n      <summary>Does every part of Thailand use the same twelve animals?<\/summary>\n      <p>Almost. The national list keeps the same eleven animals as China, with the fifth year&#8217;s label disputed among Thai sources (great serpent, Naga, or Dragon). In parts of Northern Thailand, a regional variant also swaps an elephant in for the Pig at the twelfth year, alongside that same fifth-year figure rather than instead of it.<\/p>\n    <\/details>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"tzl-next\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/vietnamese-zodiac\/\"><span>Another variant<\/span><b>Vietnam&#8217;s two animal substitutions<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/japanese-zodiac\/\"><span>Another variant<\/span><b>Japan&#8217;s boar-for-pig substitution<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/korean-zodiac\/\"><span>No substitutions<\/span><b>Korean zodiac: the same twelve animals<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/learn-great-race-legend\/\"><span>The origin story<\/span><b>The Great Race legend, explained<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/chinese-zodiac-elements\/\"><span>Five elements<\/span><b>How Water, Wood, Fire, Earth &amp; Metal rotate<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/60-year-chinese-zodiac-cycle\/\"><span>The wheel<\/span><b>The 60-year stem-branch cycle<\/b><\/a>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"tzl-section\" id=\"go-deeper\">\n    <h2>Curious how your own sign reads in the Chinese system?<\/h2>\n    <p>Your own Chinese animal, element, and full stem-branch chart are a separate, more personal layer:<\/p>\n    <div class=\"tzl-links two\">\n      <a href=\"\/product\/personalized-reading\/\"><strong>Personalized Reading<\/strong>Your full stem-branch write-up: exact animal, element, and what that traditionally means for you specifically \u2014 as a printable report.<span>See the reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n      <a href=\"\/product\/couple-chinese-zodiac-compatibility-report\/\"><strong>Couple Compatibility Report<\/strong>How your sign and a partner&#8217;s sign read together, using the Chinese branch system this comparison is built on.<span>See the report &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- DISTILL-CHECK: keywords=[thailand, thai, naga, dragon, songkran, pi naksat, khmer]; hits=[references\/asian-zodiac-variants.md#L84-115 Thailand\u7ae0\u8282(\u52a8\u7269\u5217\u8868\/\u9f99\u4f4d\u66ff\u6362\/\u5b8b\u5e72\u8282\u8d77\u70b9\/\u9ad8\u68c9\u4f20\u5165\u7ebf\u7d22,\u5747\u6807\u3010\u5f85\u6838\u3011,\u5df2\u7528\u72ec\u7acb\u6e90jamkham.com\/zodiatlas.org\/thailand.go.th\u6838\u5b9e;\"\u7ecf\u9ad8\u68c9\u4f20\u5165\"\u4e00\u6761\u72ec\u7acb\u6838\u5b9e\u540e\u8bc1\u636e\u4e0d\u591f\u5e72\u51c0\u2014\u2014\u67e5\u5230\u7684\u662f\"\u6cf0\u56fd\u5360\u535c\u672f\u53cd\u5411\u5f71\u54cd\u67ec\u57d4\u5be8\"\u800c\u975e\"\u6cf0\u56fd\u751f\u8096\u7ecf\u9ad8\u68c9\u4f20\u5165\",\u6545\u672c\u9875\u672a\u91c7\u7528\u8be5\u4f20\u64ad\u8def\u5f84\u8bf4\u6cd5)] -->\n  <!-- SOURCE-CORRECTION 2026-09-17: \u7ad9\u957f\u7ec8\u5ba1\ud83d\udfe0\u6307\u51fa\"Naga\u975e\u9f99\"\u4e0e\"Songkran\u7edf\u4e00\u6362\u5e74\"\u4e24\u5904\u5199\u7edd\u5bf9\u5316,\u72ec\u7acb\u6838\u5b9e\u5168\u90e8\u6210\u7acb(\u8865\u67e5\u6cf0\u56fd\u7687\u5bb6\u5b66\u9662\u5b98\u65b9\u9875legacy.orst.go.th\"\u0e07\u0e39\u0e43\u0e2b\u0e0d\u0e48\u0e40\u0e1b\u0e47\u0e19\u0e40\u0e04\u0e23\u0e37\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e2b\u0e21\u0e32\u0e22\"\u539f\u6587\/\u6cf0\u56fd\u6587\u5316\u90e8culture.go.th\u76f4\u63a5\u79f0\u0e21\u0e31\u0e07\u0e01\u0e23\/\u6cf0\u56fd\u7f8e\u672f\u5385finearts.go.th\u4e24\u5957\u5b98\u65b9\u6362\u5e74\u7ea6\u5b9a\/As\u00e9anie\u5b66\u672f\u671f\u520aHennequin 2000\u8bba\u6587\"\u81f3\u5c11\u4e94\u79cd\u7b54\u6848\"),\u5df2\u91cd\u5199Naga\u6bb5\u843d\u3001\u8868\u683c\u3001Songkran note\u3001FAQ\u3001JSON-LD\u4e3a\u4e09\u65b9\u5e76\u5b58\u6846\u67b6,\u4e0d\u518d\u4e8c\u9009\u4e00\u65ad\u8a00;\u6cf0\u3001\u67ec\u3001\u8001\u3001\u7f05\u3001\u65af\u91cc\u5170\u5361\"\u7edf\u4e00\u4f7f\u7528Naga\"\u7684\u8de8\u56fdclaim\u5df2\u5f31\u5316,\u907f\u514d\u4e0e\u5df2\u77e5\u7f05\u7538\u4e3b\u7528Mahabote\u516b\u66dc\u5236\u7684\u4e8b\u5b9e\u51b2\u7a81\u3002 -->\n\n  <div class=\"tzl-editorial\">\n    <h3>Editorial note<\/h3>\n    <p>Folk, devotional and mythological readings on this page are presented as tradition and documented cultural practice, not as claims about luck, fate or personality as fact. The calendar-fact layer (the shared twelve-year cycle, the fifth year&#8217;s disputed label, the multiple year-change conventions) is stated separately from the devotional layer (the birth-year temple pilgrimage). The twelve Thai year names follow Jam Kham&#8217;s Thai zodiac reference and ZodiAtlas&#8217;s Thai zodiac page; the &#8220;great serpent&#8221; definition for the fifth year follows the Royal Institute of Thailand&#8217;s own reference page, linked inline; the Ministry of Culture&#8217;s &#8220;Dragon&#8221; listing for the same year follows its own public cultural materials, also linked inline; the naga&#8217;s general character as a semidivine serpent being in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions follows Britannica; the Sanskrit root and related Pali form of &#8220;naksat&#8221; follow ZodiAtlas and Thai Wiktionary&#8217;s entry for \u0e19\u0e31\u0e01\u0e29\u0e31\u0e15\u0e23; the two official year-change conventions (astrological and civil-registration) follow Thailand&#8217;s Fine Arts Department; the Songkran folk convention follows Thaizer&#8217;s guide; the finding of at least five different answers for when a given year changes follows an academic study published in the journal As\u00e9anie, all linked inline; the Northern Thai elephant-for-pig variant follows Chiang Mai University&#8217;s own published material, linked inline; the twelve birth-year temples and the merit-making pilgrimage tradition follow Thailand&#8217;s official government tourism portal, also linked inline. A claimed transmission route for the Thai zodiac via Khmer intermediaries could not be independently confirmed and is not stated as fact on this page. Nothing here is financial, medical, or relationship advice. This page is a companion to the site&#8217;s Chinese system pages \u2014 Thailand, like Vietnam, Japan and Korea, is a local variant of the same twelve-year wheel, not an addition to China&#8217;s own zodiac.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"BreadcrumbList\",\n  \"itemListElement\": [\n    {\"@type\": \"ListItem\", \"position\": 1, \"name\": \"Home\", \"item\": \"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/\"},\n    {\"@type\": \"ListItem\", \"position\": 2, \"name\": \"Thai Zodiac\", \"item\": \"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/thai-zodiac\/\"}\n  ]\n}\n<\/script>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"FAQPage\",\n  \"mainEntity\": [\n    {\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Is the Thai zodiac the same as the Chinese zodiac?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Mostly. The same twelve-year cycle runs in the same order, and eleven of the twelve years share an animal with the Chinese list. The fifth year, Marong, is the exception: Thai sources describe it variously as a great serpent, the Naga, or plainly as Dragon, rather than settling on one label.\"}},\n    {\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Is Thailand's fifth zodiac sign a Naga or a Dragon?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Thai sources do not fully agree. The Royal Institute's Thai dictionary defines the fifth year's emblem as a \\\"great serpent,\\\" Thai folk belief often narrows that to the Naga, a serpent deity from Hindu and Buddhist mythology, and Thailand's Ministry of Culture lists the same year plainly as Dragon in its own materials. 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Onze des douze ann\u00e9es sont associ\u00e9es \u00e0 un animal qui\u2026 <a title=\"Zodiaque tha\u00eflandais : le 5e signe est-il un Naga ou un dragon ?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/thai-zodiac\/\" aria-label=\"En savoir plus sur Thai Zodiac: Is the 5th Sign a Naga or a Dragon?\">En savoir plus<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"rank_math_title":"Thai Zodiac: Is the 5th Sign a Naga or a Dragon?","rank_math_description":"The Thai zodiac shares China's twelve-year cycle, but the 5th sign is disputed: great serpent, Naga, or Dragon. 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