The zodiac order is rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, pig.
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Tied to the twelve Earthly Branches 地支 (子丑寅卯...). Each year corresponds to one animal on a repeating 12-year cycle. People commonly ask 你属什么 (what sign are you) as a roundabout way of asking age. The colloquial synonym is 属相 (shǔxiàng).
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肖 reads xiào here (fourth tone), not xiāo. The character means resemble, and the animals resemble the year of birth.
