Chinese compatibility

Rat and Rooster

4.5/10
Rat 子 zi Water · Yang
Match Neutral
Rooster 酉 you Metal · Yin

Why this score

  1. Starting point: a neutral pair 5
  2. Classical relation: Break
  3. Metal and Water: one nourishes the other
  4. Complementary yin and yang
  5. Independent sources call them incompatible
  6. Match score 4.5/10

The score is ours: the classical relation weighs most, the elements and the sources nuance it, yin and yang barely touch it.

The classical relation

Break

Unfavourable

A relation that undoes what is being built. Weaker than the clash, it wears trust down over time.

These relations come from the tables of the classical Chinese tradition, which link the twelve earthly branches.

The five elements

MetalRooster
nourishes
WaterRat

The element of the Rooster feeds that of the Rat: one supports the other, and energy flows between them on its own.

In the cycle of the five phases, each element nourishes another (Wood feeds Fire) and restrains another (Water restrains Fire).

Yin and yang

YangRat
+
YinRooster

The sign of the Rat is yang, the sign of the Rooster is yin: they complete each other, one reaches out while the other takes in.

What the sources say

2 independent sources call them incompatible.

We only keep a view once at least two independent sources share it.

The two signs

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