Horse (zodiac)

Horse
"Horse" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese	馬
Simplified Chinese	马
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin mǎ Wade–Giles ma3 IPA [mà] Hakka Romanization mâ Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization máah Jyutping maa5 IPA [maː˩˧] Southern Min Hokkien POJ bé Old Chinese Baxter (1992) *mraʔ Baxter–Sagart (2014) *mˤraʔ

The Horse (⾺) is the seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. There is a long tradition of the Horse in Chinese mythology. Certain characteristics of the Horse nature are supposed to be typical of or to be associated with either a year of the Horse and its events, or in regard to the personality of someone born in such a year. Horse aspects can also enter by other chronomantic factors or measures, such as hourly. The year of the horse is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 午.