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 IPA [ma̬ː] Jyutping maa5 Southern Min Hokkien POJ bé Old Chinese Baxter (1992) *mraʔ Baxter–Sagart (2014) *mˤraʔ

The Horse is the seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac in relation to the Chinese calendar. Some characteristics of the Horse nature must be typical of or related to either a year of the Horse and its events, or about the personality of anyone born in any year . Horse aspects can also enter into other factors or measures, such as time.