Metal Dragon quick facts
| Item | Answer |
|---|---|
| Element-animal type | Metal Dragon |
| Chinese | 金龙 |
| Stem-branch | 庚辰 · gēng chén |
| Repeats every | 60 years |
| Example years | 1940 · 2000 · 2060 |
Check the lunar boundary
A Metal Dragon year does not begin on January 1. It begins on Chinese New Year. If your birthday is in January or February, check the exact date range before deciding your sign.
What does Metal Dragon mean?
Metal Dragon is ambition with an edge: powerful, visible, standards-driven, and unwilling to let a big vision stay vague.
Metal sharpens the Dragon’s visibility and power, adding discipline, clarity, standards, and a stronger sense of what is worthy.
The element gives the year its tone: how the animal sign handles pressure, timing, visibility, and change.
The animal gives the broad zodiac rhythm and the cultural image people recognize first.
Metal Dragon wants scale, but it also wants proof.
Metal Dragon years and date ranges
The same element-animal combination returns once every 60 years. These date ranges help with January and February birthdays.
| Year | Type | Lunar zodiac date range |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Metal Dragon | Feb 8, 1940 – Jan 26, 1941 |
| 2000 | Metal Dragon | Feb 5, 2000 – Jan 23, 2001 |
| 2060 | Metal Dragon | Feb 2, 2060 – Jan 20, 2061 |
Metal Dragon personality symbolism
These are cultural-symbolic traits, not fixed personality facts. A real person is shaped by family, language, education, country, choices, and lived experience.
- Big vision with sharp standards
- Natural presence and confidence
- Strong need to prove quality
- Can become proud or impatient
- Needs humility as a practical skill
Common mistakes about Metal Dragon
- Reading the animal sign without the element layer.
- Assuming a zodiac year starts on January 1.
- Treating the element as a literal material instead of a symbolic phase.
- Using the same personality paragraph for every Dragon year instead of reading the 60-year cycle.
Metal Dragon FAQ
What is a Metal Dragon in the Chinese zodiac?
Metal Dragon combines the Metal element with the Dragon zodiac sign. Its traditional stem-branch name is 庚辰 (gēng chén).
What years are Metal Dragon years?
Metal Dragon years include 1940 · 2000 · 2060. The same element-animal combination repeats every 60 years.
What does the Metal element add to the Dragon?
Metal sharpens the Dragon’s visibility and power, adding discipline, clarity, standards, and a stronger sense of what is worthy.
Does a Metal Dragon year start on January 1?
No. Chinese zodiac years begin on Chinese New Year, so January and February birthdays need the exact lunar-year boundary.
Next steps
Use these pages to compare the animal sign, the exact birth year, and the full 60-year cycle.