1992 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Water Monkey
Year of the Water Monkey
Animal
🐒 Monkey
Element
Yang Water
Cycle position
#9 of 12
About the 1992 Monkey year
- 1992 is a Yang Water year — the Water element colours the Monkey's nature with intuition, adaptability, and empathy.
- The Monkey is the ninth of the 12 zodiac animals. The previous Monkey year was 1980 and the next is 2004.
- People born in the Year of the Monkey are traditionally seen as sharp, curious, and inventive. The Monkey is said to pair most harmoniously with the Rat, Dragon, Snake.
Best matches for the Monkey
Signs the Monkey is traditionally most compatible with.
- Rat
- Dragon
- Snake
Frequently asked
1992 is the Year of the Water Monkey — a Yang Water year. The animal sign is the Monkey, the ninth of the 12-animal cycle.
1992 carries the Water element (Yang Water). Element is set by the year's heavenly stem and cycles every 10 years, so the full Water Monkey combination returns only once every 60 years.
Those born in 1992, the Year of the Monkey, are traditionally described as sharp, curious, and inventive. With the Water element added, intuition, adaptability, and empathy are emphasised.
The Monkey is traditionally most compatible with the Rat, Dragon, Snake.
Almost — but the Chinese zodiac year starts at Chinese New Year (late January or early February), not January 1. So someone born in early 1992, before that year's Chinese New Year, is actually a Goat (the 1991 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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