Rooster (zodiac)

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

The Chicken (simplified Chinese: 鸡; traditional Chinese: 雞 / 鷄) is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac in relation to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Rooster is represented by the Earth Branch symbol 酉. The name translates into English as Chicken.

In the Tibetan zodiac and the Guru zodiac, the bird is in the place of the rooster.