The 1995 chinese zodiac sign is the Wood Pig, 乙亥 (Yǐ Hài): Yin Wood over the Pig branch, a supple plant drawing on deep, still water. Its Na Yin (纳音 nàyīn) element is 山头火 Mountain-top Fire. This year pillar is one of the four columns in a Ba Zi (八字 bāzì) chart, and the label most people wear before they know anything else about their chart.
Born in January or early February 1995? You may be a Wood Dog
The Pig year turns at Li Chun (立春 lìchūn), the start of solar spring, not on 1 January and not at Chinese New Year. In 1995 that moment fell on 4 February 1995 at 15:12 China Standard Time, the clock Singapore also keeps. Born before that afternoon instant and your real year pillar is the Wood Dog (甲戌), not the Pig. If your birthday sits in early February, treat the animal as unconfirmed until the calculator settles it.
An afternoon boundary catches more people than a midnight one. Every birth on the morning of 4 February 1995, up to 15:11, is still a Wood Dog, a full half-day of births that most zodiac tables silently misfile under the Pig. The date on the certificate is not enough here; the hour is the fact that decides.
Once the boundary is cleared, the pillar is easy to find on any chart printout: it is the column headed by your birth year, with 乙 sitting above and 亥 below. Those two characters are what this whole page describes, and the check above is simply making sure they are the right two. Everything else in the chart — month, day and hour — is built from the same birth moment but answers different questions.
The Wood Pig personality, briefly
Yin Wood on the Pig is kind and sincere, generous with time and trust, easy-natured without being naive. Warmth that draws people in and keeps them. The full temperament and its favourable elements are laid out on the Wood Pig year page rather than in this short sketch.
The hidden Na Yin: Mountain-top Fire
The 乙亥 pillar shows Yin Wood, and its Na Yin (纳音 nàyīn) sound-element is 山头火 Mountain-top Fire, the ridge-top beacon it shares with the Wood Dog, since paired pillars sound alike. Supple wood carrying a high, steady flame underneath suits a warm, sincere sign whose kindness quietly lights the way for others. Na Yin is the traditional secondary layer, useful in older marriage-matching but never a substitute for the working reading of your stems and branches. In sequence, 乙亥 is the twelfth of the sixty sexagenary pairings, recurring in 1995, 2055 and on the same sixty-year turn.
The Pig across the decades
Twelve years separate each Pig generation, and each carries a different stem. The 1983 Water Pig, the 1971 Metal Pig and the 1959 Earth Pig precede 1995; the 2007 Fire Pig and the 2019 Earth Pig follow. The stem is not decoration: a Metal Pig’s generosity comes with firmer boundaries, a Water Pig’s with more drift, and the 1995 Wood Pig’s with the most patience of the five. What the branch itself contributes, the deep-water 亥 underneath all of them, is set out on the Year of the Pig hub page.
The Wood Pig in 2026
A 1995 Pig turns 31 in 2026. The Pig branch makes no major clash or combination with the 2026 Fire Horse, so read the year by element rather than branch event. Your Yin Wood feeds a strongly Fire year — Wood generates Fire — which can leave you fuelling the year’s pace and giving out energy. Whether that drains or suits you depends on what the rest of your chart carries.
With no clash or combination to shape it, the year lands by element and luck cycle. For a Wood Pig, whose Wood feeds the year’s Fire, output and generosity rise together, which is rewarding but easy to overdo. The practical discipline is to give from surplus rather than from reserves, and to let your own luck cycle, not the animal, tell you how much the year genuinely asks of you.
Common questions from 1995 births
My birthday is 4 February 1995. What is my animal?
Whichever side of 15:12 you arrived. A 09:00 birth that day is a Wood Dog; an 18:00 birth is a Wood Pig. The boundary is a minute on the clock, not a date, so the recorded birth time is the only evidence that settles it.
Other websites tell me a different animal. Why?
Most quick lookup tables switch the animal at Lunar New Year, or simply at 1 January. Ba Zi switches at Li Chun, which in 1995 fell at 15:12 on 4 February. For roughly eleven months of the year all three methods agree; for January and early-February birthdays they diverge, and the chart follows the solar term.
I do not know my birth time. Can the animal still be fixed?
Usually, yes. Unless you were born on 4 February 1995 itself, the date alone decides the year pillar, since the boundary is the only ambiguous moment of the year. Born on the boundary day, look for the time on your birth certificate or hospital record; failing that, a practitioner reads the chart both ways and checks which fits the life.
Beyond the animal
For the questions that actually keep people up at night, the year animal is too blunt a tool. A reading takes your whole chart, an hour of focused work and a written summary, no fear-selling, which is where partnership and timing questions belong.
The Pig year branch is a single character among eight, and it forecasts little on its own. Your Day Master and the elements it needs decide how a Fire year actually feels. The five elements guide shows why the same year treats two people so differently, and the what is my Chinese zodiac walkthrough confirms the animal itself. Born near the seam? The 1994 Wood Dog page shows the pillar you might really carry. See your full chart free with the calculator.