1992 Chinese zodiac sign: Water Monkey

Chinese year 1992 begins on Tuesday, February 4, 1992, and ends on Friday, January 22, 1993, the day before the Year of the Water Rooster begins. It has 354 days, or 12 lunar months: each month starts on a new moon, so it is 29 or 30 days long. The next leap year, with a thirteenth month, comes in 1993.

The year opens with the new moon on Monday, February 3, 1992 at 2:00 p.m. ET. In Beijing it is already February 4, 3:00 a.m. China Standard Time, and the Beijing date sets New Year's Day, so the new year begins on February 4.

The Lantern Festival, which closes the New Year celebrations, comes on the fifteenth day of the first month, so on Tuesday, February 18, 1992. The year's first full moon falls on Tuesday, February 18, 1992 at 3:04 a.m. ET.

It is year 9 of the sixty-year cycle that began in 1984 with the Wood Rat. In Chinese this year is called 壬申 (rénshēn): the heavenly stem 壬 gives the element and the earthly branch 申 the animal.

In Ba Zi astrology, the Four Pillars of Destiny, the year 1992 begins not at the lunar New Year but at the moment of lìchūn (立春, “start of spring”), when the Sun reaches 315° of ecliptic longitude: on Tuesday, February 4, 1992 at 8:48 a.m. Eastern Time. That is the same day Chinese New Year begins, so both calendars change sign on February 4.

This page and the calculator give your sign by the lunar calendar.

The Monkey is the sign of intelligence and inventiveness. It is brilliant, curious about the world and quick to learn, and it solves problems in unconventional ways.

Intuition, flexibility and a gift for persuasion. Water softens a sign and teaches it to go with the flow.

The Water element covers two years in a row, 1992 (yang) and 1993 (yin), and comes back every ten years: before that in 1982–1983, next in 2002–2003.

The Water Monkey persuades without confrontation. Water gives it a feel for people and for diplomacy, so it gets its way with patience and charm rather than by pushing. It is sharp, funny and understands others well. It keeps its plans to itself, though, and reacts to criticism more sensitively than it lets on.

In 2026, people born in 1992 turn 34 years old. The Year of the Fire Horse is running now, which tradition counts as a year with no special tie for the Monkey. People born in 1992 reach their next běnmìngnián, the year of their own sign, in 2028, when they turn 36 years old.

The Monkey comes back every 12 years, each time with a different element. The exact combination of 1992, the Water Monkey, returns every 60 years: in 1932, 1992 and 2052.