Rooster (zodiac)

Rooster
Rooster
	"Rooster, Chicken" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese	雞
Simplified Chinese	鸡
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	jī
Wade–Giles	chi1
IPA	[tɕí]
Hakka
Romanization	kiê
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	gāi
Jyutping	gai1
IPA	[kɐi˥]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	koe
Old Chinese
Baxter (1992)	*ke
Baxter–Sagart (2014)	*kˤe

The Rooster (simplified Chinese: 鸡; traditional Chinese: 雞/鷄) is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Rooster is represented by the Earthly Branch symbol 酉.

In the Tibetan zodiac and the Gurung zodiac, the bird is in place of the Rooster.^[1]^[2]

^ ricardobaddouh (28 January 2014). "Tibetan Astrology – Table of Year-Animal-Element". AHMC. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
^ Arina Sherchan (11 July 2010). "Tamu (Gurung) Losar Festival". ESC Nepal. Retrieved 9 June 2017.