虎 Tiger and Rooster 雞
Yin and You: unlinked branches, opposite instincts under pressure.
Compatibility score
Difficult · 64% · No classical relation
Scored from the classical Chinese relations — San He, Liu He, Chong and Hai — not from Western sun-sign logic. A full Chinese reading also weighs the year element, the month branch and the hour pillar.
The verdict
Watch them when something goes wrong. The Tiger moves first and asks afterwards; the Rooster stops, establishes what actually happened and only then acts, and in the hour between, each privately concludes that the other is the problem. The chart issues no ruling: You runs with Ox and Snake and pairs with Dragon, Yin appears on none of those lists, and there is no clash or harm to fall back on either. Whether this becomes a good division of labour or a running quarrel about competence usually turns on whether each of them counts the other's kind of work as work at all.
What works
- Tiger leaves whole territories uninspected, and those are precisely the territories a Rooster enjoys
- When analysis has curdled into delay, Tiger nerve is what gets the thing moving again
- Tiger's reputation opens the door and Rooster's preparation means you are ready when one opens
Where it strains
- Tiger takes command by instinct, so being fact-checked mid-charge reads as a challenge to who leads
- The Tiger calls the careful work fussing, and a Rooster does not forget being called fussy
- Rooster's tie to Snake keeps drawing Tiger near a sign it stands in punishment with, at quiet cost
The one thing to get right
Once, in plain terms, each of you should say what the other actually contributed to the last thing that went right. The difficulty in this pairing is not method but unacknowledged labour, and it only responds to being named.
Frequently asked questions
Are the Tiger and Rooster compatible?
Tiger and Rooster compatibility rates 64% overall — difficult. Watch them when something goes wrong. The Tiger moves first and asks afterwards; the Rooster stops, establishes what actually happened and only then acts, and in the hour between, each privately concludes that the other is the problem. The chart issues no ruling: You runs with Ox and Snake and pairs with Dragon, Yin appears on none of those lists, and there is no clash or harm to fall back on either. Whether this becomes a good division of labour or a running quarrel about competence usually turns on whether each of them counts the other's kind of work as work at all.
What is the biggest problem between the Tiger and the Rooster?
Tiger takes command by instinct, so being fact-checked mid-charge reads as a challenge to who leads. Once, in plain terms, each of you should say what the other actually contributed to the last thing that went right. The difficulty in this pairing is not method but unacknowledged labour, and it only responds to being named.
What is the classical relation between the Tiger and the Rooster?
They are a No classical relation pairing. Tiger leaves whole territories uninspected, and those are precisely the territories a Rooster enjoys.