1941 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Metal Snake

1941 · Yin Metal🐍 Snake

Year of the Metal Snake

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Animal

🐍 Snake

Element

Yin Metal

Cycle position

#6 of 12

About the 1941 Snake year

  • 1941 is a Yin Metal year — the Metal element colours the Snake's nature with determination, structure, and resilience.
  • The Snake is the sixth of the 12 zodiac animals. The previous Snake year was 1929 and the next is 1953.
  • People born in the Year of the Snake are traditionally seen as wise, intuitive, and composed. The Snake is said to pair most harmoniously with the Ox, Rooster, Monkey.

Best matches for the Snake

Signs the Snake is traditionally most compatible with.

  • Ox
  • Rooster
  • Monkey

Other Years of the Snake

The same sign returns every 12 years.

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Frequently asked

1941 is the Year of the Metal Snake — a Yin Metal year. The animal sign is the Snake, the sixth of the 12-animal cycle.

1941 carries the Metal element (Yin Metal). Element is set by the year's heavenly stem and cycles every 10 years, so the full Metal Snake combination returns only once every 60 years.

Those born in 1941, the Year of the Snake, are traditionally described as wise, intuitive, and composed. With the Metal element added, determination, structure, and resilience are emphasised.

The Snake is traditionally most compatible with the Ox, Rooster, Monkey.

Almost — but the Chinese zodiac year starts at Chinese New Year (late January or early February), not January 1. So someone born in early 1941, before that year's Chinese New Year, is actually a Dragon (the 1940 sign). If your birthday is in late January or early February, enter your full date of birth in the Age Calculator to confirm your exact sign.

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