Chinese Zodiac Rooster — personality, years & compatibility

The Rooster is the bird that announces dawn: one crow and the sky lightens, faithful as a clock. Classical texts assign it "the discernment of yin metal" — plumage not the showiest but the tidiest, work not the fastest but the error-free. It is the quality inspector of the twelve.

Its strengths are rigor, punctuality, responsibility, and blunt honest counsel; its weaknesses are pickiness and zero tolerance — standards high enough to wound, words straight enough to sting. Order is the gift; measure is the practice.

In love the Rooster cannot rub sand into its eyes — clear criteria in choosing, and afterwards a household run to the cent. In work it suits management, auditing, accounting, editing, and any trade where detail is life and death. The dawn-crier’s report is never a minute late.