Chinese zodiac

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Task
Chinese zodiac
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Determine the Chinese zodiac sign and related associations for a given year.

Traditionally, the Chinese have counted years using two simultaneous cycles, one of length 10 (the "celestial stems") and one of length 12 (the "terrestrial branches"); the combination results in a repeating 60-year pattern. Mapping the branches to twelve traditional animal deities results in the well-known "Chinese zodiac", assigning each year to a given animal. For example, Tuesday, February 1, 2022 CE (in the common Gregorian calendar) will begin the lunisolar Year of the Tiger.

The celestial stems have no one-to-one mapping like that of the branches to animals; however, the five pairs of consecutive stems each belong to one of the five traditional Chinese elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water). Further, one of the two years within each element's governance is associated with yin, the other with yang.

Thus, 2022 is also the yang year of Water. Note that since 12 is an even number, the association between animals and yin/yang doesn't change. Consecutive Years of the Rooster will cycle through the five elements, but will always be yin, despite the apparent conceptual mismatch between the specifically-male English animal name and the female aspect denoted by yin.

Task
Create a subroutine or program that will return or output the animal, yin/yang association, and element for the lunisolar year that begins in a given CE year.

You may optionally provide more information in the form of the year's numerical position within the 60-year cycle and/or its actual Chinese stem-branch name (in Han characters or Pinyin transliteration).

Requisite information
  • The animal cycle runs in this order: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig.
  • The element cycle runs in this order: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water.
  • The yang year precedes the yin year within each element.
  • The current 60-year cycle began in 1984 CE; the first cycle of the Common Era began in 4 CE.

Thus, 1984 was the year of the Wood Rat (yang), 1985 was the year of the Wood Ox (yin), and 1986 the year of the Fire Tiger (yang); 2022 - which, as already noted, is the year of the Water Tiger (yang) - is the 39th year of the current cycle.

Information for optional task
  • The ten celestial stems are jiă, , bĭng, dīng, , , gēng, xīn, rén, and gŭi. With the ASCII version of Pinyin tones, the names are written "jia3", "yi3", "bing3", "ding1", "wu4", "ji3", "geng1", "xin1", "ren2", and "gui3".
  • The twelve terrestrial branches are , chŏu, yín, măo, chén, , , wèi, shēn, yŏu, , hài. In ASCII Pinyin, those are "zi3", "chou3", "yin2", "mao3", "chen2", "si4", "wu3", "wei4", "shen1", "you3", "xu1", and "hai4".

Therefore 1984 was 甲子 (jiă-zĭ, or jia3-zi3). 2022 is 壬寅 (rén-yín or ren2-yin2).

11l

Translation of: C++

<lang 11l>V animals = [‘Rat’, ‘Ox’, ‘Tiger’, ‘Rabbit’, ‘Dragon’, ‘Snake’, ‘Horse’, ‘Goat’, ‘Monkey’, ‘Rooster’, ‘Dog’, ‘Pig’] V elements = [‘Wood’, ‘Fire’, ‘Earth’, ‘Metal’, ‘Water’]

F getElement(year)

  R :elements[(year - 4) % 10 I/ 2]

F getAnimal(year)

  R :animals[(year - 4) % 12]

F getYY(year)

  I year % 2 == 0
     R ‘yang’
  E
     R ‘yin’

L(year) [1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 2017]

  print(year‘ is the year of the ’getElement(year)‘ ’getAnimal(year)‘ (’getYY(year)‘).’)</lang>
Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (yin).
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (yang).
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (yang).
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (yang).
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (yang).
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (yin).

360 Assembly

Translation of: VBScript

<lang>* Chinese zodiac 10/03/2019 CHINEZOD CSECT

        USING  CHINEZOD,R13       base register
        B      72(R15)            skip savearea
        DC     17F'0'             savearea
        SAVE   (14,12)            save previous context
        ST     R13,4(R15)         link backward
        ST     R15,8(R13)         link forward
        LR     R13,R15            set addressability
        LA     R6,1               i=1
      DO WHILE=(C,R6,LE,=A(NY))   do i=1 to hbound(years)
        LR     R1,R6                i
        SLA    R1,2                 *4
        L      R2,YEARS-4(R1)       ~
        ST     R2,YEAR              year=years(i)
        SH     R2,=H'4'             -4
        LR     R7,R2                year-4
        SRDA   R2,32                ~
        D      R2,=F'10'            /10
        SRA    R2,1                 /2
        MH     R2,=H'6'             *6
        LA     R1,ELEMENTS(R2)      ~
        MVC    ELEMENT,0(R1)      element=elements(mod(year-4,10)/2+1)
        LR     R2,R7                year-4
        SRDA   R2,32                ~
        D      R2,=F'12'            /12
        SLA    R2,3                 *8
        LA     R1,ANIMALS(R2)       ~
        MVC    ANIMAL,0(R1)         animal=animals(mod(year-4,12)+1)
        L      R2,YEAR              year
        SRDA   R2,32                ~
        D      R2,=F'2'             /2
        SLA    R2,2                 *4
        LA     R1,YINYANGS(R2)      ~
        MVC    YINYANG,0(R1)        yinyang=yinyangs(mod(year,2)+1)
        LR     R2,R7                year-4
        SRDA   R2,32                ~
        D      R2,=F'60'            /60
        LA     R2,1(R2)             nn=mod(year-4,60)+1
        L      R1,YEAR              year
        XDECO  R1,XDEC              edit year
        MVC    PG+00(4),XDEC+8      output year
        MVC    PG+24(6),ELEMENT     output element
        MVC    PG+31(8),ANIMAL      output animal
        MVC    PG+41(4),YINYANG     output yinyang
        XDECO  R2,XDEC              edit nn
        MVC    PG+49(2),XDEC+10     output nn
        XPRNT  PG,L'PG              print buffer
        LA     R6,1(R6)             i++
      ENDDO    ,                  enddo i
        L      R13,4(0,R13)       restore previous savearea pointer
        RETURN (14,12),RC=0       restore registers from calling sav

NY EQU (ANIMAL-YEARS)/4 ANIMALS DC CL8'Rat',CL8'Ox',CL8'Tiger',CL8'Rabbit'

        DC     CL8'Dragon',CL8'Snake',CL8'Horse',CL8'Goat'
        DC     CL8'Monkey',CL8'Rooster',CL8'Dog',CL8'Pig'

ELEMENTS DC CL6'Wood',CL6'Fire',CL6'Earth',CL6'Metal',CL6'Water' YINYANGS DC CL4'Yang',CL4'Yin' YEARS DC F'1935',F'1938',F'1968',F'1972',F'1976',F'1984',F'2017' ANIMAL DS CL8 ELEMENT DS CL6 YINYANG DS CL4 YEAR DS F PG DC CL80':::: is the year of the :::::: :::::::: (::::).  ::/60' XDEC DS CL12 temp for xdeco

        REGEQU
        END    CHINEZOD</lang>
Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood   Pig      (Yin ).  12/60
1938 is the year of the Earth  Tiger    (Yang).  15/60
1968 is the year of the Earth  Monkey   (Yang).  45/60
1972 is the year of the Water  Rat      (Yang).  49/60
1976 is the year of the Fire   Dragon   (Yang).  53/60
1984 is the year of the Wood   Rat      (Yang).   1/60
2017 is the year of the Fire   Rooster  (Yin ).  34/60

Action!

<lang Action!>CARD ARRAY animals(12),elements(5),stems(10),branches(12),yinYangs(2)

PROC Init()

 animals(0)="Rat"    animals(1)="Ox"
 animals(2)="Tiger"  animals(3)="Rabbit"
 animals(4)="Dragon" animals(5)="Snake"
 animals(6)="Horse"  animals(7)="Goat"
 animals(8)="Monkey" animals(9)="Rooster"
 animals(10)="Dog"   animals(11)="Pig"
 elements(0)="Wood"  elements(1)="Fire"
 elements(2)="Earth" elements(3)="Metal"
 elements(4)="Water"
 stems(0)="jia"      stems(1)="yi"
 stems(2)="bing"     stems(3)="ding"
 stems(4)="wu"       stems(5)="ji"
 stems(6)="geng"     stems(7)="xin"
 stems(8)="ren"      stems(9)="gui"
 branches(0)="zi"    branches(1)="chou"
 branches(2)="yin"   branches(3)="mao"
 branches(4)="chen"  branches(5)="si"
 branches(6)="wu"    branches(7)="wei"
 branches(8)="shen"  branches(9)="you"
 branches(10)="xu"   branches(11)="hai"
 yinYangs(0)="Yang"  yinYangs(1)="Yin"

RETURN

CARD FUNC GetAnimal(INT y) RETURN (animals((y-4) MOD 12))

CARD FUNC GetElement(INT y) RETURN (elements(((y-4) MOD 10)/2))

CARD FUNC GetStem(INT y) RETURN (stems((y-4) MOD 10))

CARD FUNC GetBranch(INT y) RETURN (branches((y-4) MOD 12))

CARD FUNC GetYinYang(INT y) RETURN (yinYangs(y MOD 2))

BYTE FUNC GetCycle(INT y) RETURN ((y-4) MOD 60+1)

PROC Main()

 INT ARRAY years=[1935 1938 1968 1972 1976 1984 2017 2021]
 CHAR ARRAY s
 BYTE i,c
 INT y
 Init()
 FOR i=0 TO 7
 DO
   y=years(i)
   PrintI(y) Print(" ")
   s=GetStem(y) Print(s) Print("-")
   s=GetBranch(y) Print(s) Print(" ")
   s=GetElement(y) Print(s) Print(" ")
   s=GetAnimal(y) Print(s) Print(" ")
   s=GetYinYang(y) Print(s) Print(" ")
   c=GetCycle(y) PrintB(c) Print("/60") PutE()
 OD

RETURN</lang>

Output:

Screenshot from Atari 8-bit computer

1935 yi-hai Wood Pig Yin 12/60
1938 wu-yin Earth Tiger Yang 15/60
1968 wu-shen Earth Monkey Yang 45/60
1972 ren-zi Water Rat Yang 49/60
1976 bing-chen Fire Dragon Yang 53/60
1984 jia-zi Wood Rat Yang 1/60
2017 ding-you Fire Rooster Yin 34/60
2021 xin-chou Metal Ox Yin 38/60

Ada

Works with: GNAT version 8.3.0

<lang Ada> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; with Ada.Strings.Unbounded; use Ada.Strings.Unbounded; procedure Main is

type Element_Index is mod 5; type Animal_Index is mod 12; type Stem_Index is mod 10;

type Animal_Array is array(Animal_Index range <>) of Unbounded_String; type Element_Array is array(Element_Index range <>) of Unbounded_String; type Stem_Array is array(Stem_Index range <>) of Unbounded_String;


Ani_Arr : Animal_Array := (To_Unbounded_String ("Rat"), To_Unbounded_String ("Ox"), To_Unbounded_String ("Tiger"), To_Unbounded_String ("Rabbit"), To_Unbounded_String ("Dragon"), To_Unbounded_String ("Snake"), To_Unbounded_String ("Horse"), To_Unbounded_String ("Sheep"), To_Unbounded_String ("Monkey"), To_Unbounded_String ("Rooster"), To_Unbounded_String ("Dog"), To_Unbounded_String ("Pig"));

Bra_Arr : Animal_Array := (To_Unbounded_String ("子"), To_Unbounded_String ("丑"), To_Unbounded_String ("寅"), To_Unbounded_String ("卯"), To_Unbounded_String ("辰"), To_Unbounded_String ("巳"), To_Unbounded_String ("午"), To_Unbounded_String ("未"), To_Unbounded_String ("申"), To_Unbounded_String ("酉"), To_Unbounded_String ("戌"), To_Unbounded_String ("亥"));

Ele_Arr : Element_Array := (To_Unbounded_String ("Wood"), To_Unbounded_String ("Fire"), To_Unbounded_String ("Earth"), To_Unbounded_String ("Metal"), To_Unbounded_String ("Water"));

Ste_Arr : Stem_Array := (To_Unbounded_String ("甲"), To_Unbounded_String ("乙"), To_Unbounded_String ("丙"), To_Unbounded_String ("丁"), To_Unbounded_String ("戊"), To_Unbounded_String ("己"), To_Unbounded_String ("庚"), To_Unbounded_String ("辛"), To_Unbounded_String ("壬"), To_Unbounded_String ("癸"));

procedure Sexagenary (Year : Positive) is Base_Year : Positive := 1984; Temp  : Natural  := abs (Base_Year - Year); Temp_Float: Float  := 0.0;

Ele_Idx  : Element_Index  := Element_Index'First; Ani_Idx  : Animal_Index  := Animal_Index'First; Ste_Idx  : Stem_Index  := Stem_Index'First; Result  : Unbounded_String := Null_Unbounded_String; begin Result := Result & Year'Image & " is the year of ";

if Year >= Base_Year then Temp_Float := Float'Floor (Float (Temp) / Float (2)); Ele_Idx  := Element_Index (Natural (Temp_Float) mod 5); Result  := Result & Ele_Arr (Ele_Idx) & " ";

Ani_Idx := Animal_Index (Temp mod 12); Result  := Result & Ani_Arr (Ani_Idx) & " "; elsif Year < Base_Year then Temp_Float := Float'Ceiling (Float (Temp) / Float (2)); Ele_Idx  := Ele_Idx - Element_Index (Natural (Temp_Float) mod 5); Result  := Result & Ele_Arr (Ele_Idx) & " ";

Ani_Idx := Ani_Idx - Animal_Index (Temp mod 12); Result  := Result & Ani_Arr (Ani_Idx) & " "; end if;

if Year mod 2 = 0 then Result := Result & "(yang). "; else Result := Result & "(yin). "; end if;

Ani_Idx := Animal_Index'First;

if Year >= Base_Year then Ste_Idx := Stem_Index (Temp mod 10); Result  := Result & Ste_Arr (Ste_Idx);

Ani_Idx := Animal_Index (Temp mod 12); Result  := Result & Bra_Arr (Ani_Idx); elsif Year < Base_Year then Ste_Idx := Ste_Idx - Stem_Index (Temp mod 10); Result  := Result & Ste_Arr (Ste_Idx);

Ani_Idx := Ani_Idx - Animal_Index (Temp mod 12); Result  := Result & Bra_Arr (Ani_Idx); end if;

Put (To_String (Result)); end Sexagenary;

   arr : array(Positive range <>) of Positive := (1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1985, 2017);

begin

   for I of arr loop
       Sexagenary (I);
       New_Line;
   end loop;

end Main; </lang>

Output:
 1935 is the year of Wood Pig (yin). 乙亥
 1938 is the year of Earth Tiger (yang). 戊寅
 1968 is the year of Earth Monkey (yang). 戊申
 1972 is the year of Water Rat (yang). 壬子
 1976 is the year of Fire Dragon (yang). 丙辰
 1984 is the year of Wood Rat (yang). 甲子
 1985 is the year of Wood Ox (yin). 乙丑
 2017 is the year of Fire Rooster (yin). 丁酉

ALGOL 68

Translation of: AWK

<lang algol68>BEGIN # Chinese Zodiac #

   # returns s right-padded with blanks to w characters, or s if s is already at least w characters long #
   PRIO PAD = 1;
   OP   PAD = ( STRING s, INT w )STRING:
        BEGIN
           STRING result := s;
           WHILE ( ( UPB result + 1 ) - LWB s ) < w DO result +:= " " OD;
           result
        END # PAD # ;
   []STRING animal name  = ( "Rat",   "Ox",   "Tiger",  "Rabbit",  "Dragon", "Snake"
                           , "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog",    "Pig"
                           );
   []STRING element name = ( "Wood",  "Fire", "Earth",  "Metal",   "Water" );
   []INT    test year    = ( 1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1985, 2017 );
   print( ( "year element animal  aspect", newline ) );
   FOR i FROM LWB test year TO UPB test year DO
       INT    year    = test year[ i ];
       STRING element = element name[ ( ( year - 4 ) MOD 10 OVER 2 ) + 1 ];
       STRING animal  = animal name[    ( year - 4 ) MOD 12          + 1 ];
       STRING yy      = IF ODD year THEN "Yin" ELSE "Yang" FI;
       print( ( whole( year, -4 ), " ", element PAD 7, " ", animal PAD 7, " ", yy, newline ) )
   OD

END</lang>

Output:
year element animal  aspect
1935 Wood    Pig     Yin
1938 Earth   Tiger   Yang
1968 Earth   Monkey  Yang
1972 Water   Rat     Yang
1976 Fire    Dragon  Yang
1984 Wood    Rat     Yang
1985 Wood    Ox      Yin
2017 Fire    Rooster Yin

AppleScript

Translation of: JavaScript
Translation of: Haskell

<lang AppleScript>on run

   -- TRADITIONAL STRINGS ---------------------------------------------------
   
   -- ts :: Array Int (String, String)            -- 天干 tiangan – 10 heavenly stems
   set ts to zip(chars("甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸"), ¬
       |words|("jiă yĭ bĭng dīng wù jĭ gēng xīn rén gŭi"))
   
   -- ds :: Array Int (String, String)            -- 地支 dizhi – 12 terrestrial branches
   set ds to zip(chars("子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥"), ¬
       |words|("zĭ chŏu yín măo chén sì wŭ wèi shēn yŏu xū hài"))
   
   -- ws :: Array Int (String, String, String)    -- 五行 wuxing – 5 elements
   set ws to zip3(chars("木火土金水"), ¬
       |words|("mù huǒ tǔ jīn shuǐ"), ¬
       |words|("wood fire earth metal water"))
   
   -- xs :: Array Int (String, String, String)    -- 十二生肖 shengxiao – 12 symbolic animals
   set xs to zip3(chars("鼠牛虎兔龍蛇馬羊猴鸡狗豬"), ¬
       |words|("shǔ niú hǔ tù lóng shé mǎ yáng hóu jī gǒu zhū"), ¬
       |words|("rat ox tiger rabbit dragon snake horse goat monkey rooster dog pig"))
   
   -- ys :: Array Int (String, String)            -- 阴阳 yinyang
   set ys to zip(chars("阳阴"), |words|("yáng yīn"))
   
   
   -- TRADITIONAL CYCLES ----------------------------------------------------
   
   script cycles
       on |λ|(y)
           set iYear to y - 4
           set iStem to iYear mod 10
           set iBranch to iYear mod 12
           set {hStem, pStem} to item (iStem + 1) of ts
           set {hBranch, pBranch} to item (iBranch + 1) of ds
           set {hElem, pElem, eElem} to item ((iStem div 2) + 1) of ws
           set {hAnimal, pAnimal, eAnimal} to item (iBranch + 1) of xs
           set {hYinyang, pYinyang} to item ((iYear mod 2) + 1) of ys
           
           {{show(y), hStem & hBranch, hElem, hAnimal, hYinyang}, ¬
               {"", pStem & pBranch, pElem, pAnimal, pYinyang}, ¬
               {"", show((iYear mod 60) + 1) & "/60", eElem, eAnimal, ""}}
       end |λ|
   end script
   
   -- FORMATTING ------------------------------------------------------------
   
   -- fieldWidths :: Int
   set fieldWidths to {{6, 10, 7, 8, 3}, {6, 11, 8, 8, 4}, {6, 11, 8, 8, 4}}
   
   script showYear
       script widthStringPairs
           on |λ|(nscs)
               set {ns, cs} to nscs
               zip(ns, cs)
           end |λ|
       end script
       
       script justifiedRow
           on |λ|(row)
               script
                   on |λ|(ns)
                       set {n, s} to ns
                       justifyLeft(n, space, s)
                   end |λ|
               end script
               
               concat(map(result, row))
           end |λ|
       end script
       
       on |λ|(y)
           unlines(map(justifiedRow, ¬
               map(widthStringPairs, ¬
                   zip(fieldWidths, |λ|(y) of cycles))))
       end |λ|
   end script
   
   -- TEST OUTPUT -----------------------------------------------------------
   intercalate("\n\n", map(showYear, {1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 2017}))

end run


-- GENERIC FUNCTIONS ---------------------------------------------------------

-- chars :: String -> [String] on chars(s)

   characters of s

end chars

-- concat :: a -> [a] | [String] -> String on concat(xs)

   if length of xs > 0 and class of (item 1 of xs) is string then
       set acc to ""
   else
       set acc to {}
   end if
   repeat with i from 1 to length of xs
       set acc to acc & item i of xs
   end repeat
   acc

end concat

-- foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a on foldl(f, startValue, xs)

   tell mReturn(f)
       set v to startValue
       set lng to length of xs
       repeat with i from 1 to lng
           set v to |λ|(v, item i of xs, i, xs)
       end repeat
       return v
   end tell

end foldl

-- intercalate :: Text -> [Text] -> Text on intercalate(strText, lstText)

   set {dlm, my text item delimiters} to {my text item delimiters, strText}
   set strJoined to lstText as text
   set my text item delimiters to dlm
   return strJoined

end intercalate

-- justifyLeft :: Int -> Char -> Text -> Text on justifyLeft(n, cFiller, strText)

   if n > length of strText then
       text 1 thru n of (strText & replicate(n, cFiller))
   else
       strText
   end if

end justifyLeft

-- map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] on map(f, xs)

   tell mReturn(f)
       set lng to length of xs
       set lst to {}
       repeat with i from 1 to lng
           set end of lst to |λ|(item i of xs, i, xs)
       end repeat
       return lst
   end tell

end map

-- min :: Ord a => a -> a -> a on min(x, y)

   if y < x then
       y
   else
       x
   end if

end min

-- minimum :: [a] -> a on minimum(xs)

   script min
       on |λ|(a, x)
           if x < a or a is missing value then
               x
           else
               a
           end if
       end |λ|
   end script
   
   foldl(min, missing value, xs)

end minimum

-- Lift 2nd class handler function into 1st class script wrapper -- mReturn :: Handler -> Script on mReturn(f)

   if class of f is script then
       f
   else
       script
           property |λ| : f
       end script
   end if

end mReturn

-- Egyptian multiplication - progressively doubling a list, appending -- stages of doubling to an accumulator where needed for binary -- assembly of a target length

-- replicate :: Int -> a -> [a] on replicate(n, a)

   set out to {}
   if n < 1 then return out
   set dbl to {a}
   
   repeat while (n > 1)
       if (n mod 2) > 0 then set out to out & dbl
       set n to (n div 2)
       set dbl to (dbl & dbl)
   end repeat
   return out & dbl

end replicate

-- show :: a -> String on show(e)

   set c to class of e
   if c = list then
       script serialized
           on |λ|(v)
               show(v)
           end |λ|
       end script
       
       "[" & intercalate(", ", map(serialized, e)) & "]"
   else if c = record then
       script showField
           on |λ|(kv)
               set {k, ev} to kv
               "\"" & k & "\":" & show(ev)
           end |λ|
       end script
       
       "{" & intercalate(", ", ¬
           map(showField, zip(allKeys(e), allValues(e)))) & "}"
   else if c = date then
       "\"" & iso8601Z(e) & "\""
   else if c = text then
       "\"" & e & "\""
   else if (c = integer or c = real) then
       e as text
   else if c = class then
       "null"
   else
       try
           e as text
       on error
           ("«" & c as text) & "»"
       end try
   end if

end show

-- unlines :: [String] -> String on unlines(xs)

   intercalate(linefeed, xs)

end unlines

-- words :: String -> [String] on |words|(s)

   words of s

end |words|

-- zip :: [a] -> [b] -> [(a, b)] on zip(xs, ys)

   set lng to min(length of xs, length of ys)
   set lst to {}
   repeat with i from 1 to lng
       set end of lst to {item i of xs, item i of ys}
   end repeat
   return lst

end zip

-- zip3 :: [a] -> [b] -> [c] -> [(a, b, c)] on zip3(xs, ys, zs)

   script
       on |λ|(x, i)
           [x, item i of ys, item i of zs]
       end |λ|
   end script
   
   map(result, items 1 thru ¬
       minimum({length of xs, length of ys, length of zs}) of xs)

end zip3</lang>

Output:
1935  乙亥        木      豬       阴  
      yĭhài      mù      zhū     yīn 
      12/60      wood    pig         

1938  戊寅        土      虎       阳  
      wùyín      tǔ      hǔ      yáng
      15/60      earth   tiger       

1968  戊申        土      猴       阳  
      wùshēn     tǔ      hóu     yáng
      45/60      earth   monkey      

1972  壬子        水      鼠       阳  
      rénzĭ      shuǐ    shǔ     yáng
      49/60      water   rat         

1976  丙辰        火      龍       阳  
      bĭngchén   huǒ     lóng    yáng
      53/60      fire    dragon      

1984  甲子        木      鼠       阳  
      jiăzĭ      mù      shǔ     yáng
      1/60       wood    rat         

2017  丁酉        火      鸡       阴  
      dīngyŏu    huǒ     jī      yīn 
      34/60      fire    rooster     

AutoHotkey

Chinese Animal/Element/Yin/Yang Characters Copied From "AppleScript" <lang AutoHotkey>Chinese_zodiac(year){ Animal := StrSplit("Rat,Ox,Tiger,Rabbit,Dragon,Snake,Horse,Goat,Monkey,Rooster,Dog,Pig", ",") AnimalCh := StrSplit("鼠牛虎兔龍蛇馬羊猴鸡狗豬") AnimalName := StrSplit("shǔ,niú,hǔ,tù,lóng,shé,mǎ,yáng,hóu,jī,gǒu,zhū", ",") Element := StrSplit("Wood,Fire,Earth,Metal,Water", ",") ElementCh := StrSplit("木火土金水") ElementName := StrSplit("mù,huǒ,tǔ,jīn,shuǐ", ",") StemCh := StrSplit("甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸") StemName := StrSplit("jiă,yĭ,bĭng,dīng,wù,jĭ,gēng,xīn,rén,gŭi", ",") BranchCh := StrSplit("子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥") BranchName := StrSplit("zĭ,chŏu,yín,măo,chén,sì,wŭ,wèi,shēn,yŏu,xū,hài", ",") Mod10 := Mod(year-4, 10)+1 Mod12 := Mod(year-4, 12)+1 A := Animal[Mod12], Ac := AnimalCh[Mod12] An := AnimalName[Mod12] E := Element[Floor(Mod(year-4, 10)/2+1)] Ec := ElementCh[Floor(Mod(year-4, 10)/2+1)] En := ElementName[Floor(Mod(year-4, 10)/2+1)] YY := Mod(year-4, 2)=1 ? "yīn 阴" : "yáng 阳" Yr := Mod(year-4, 60)+1 "/60" S := StemCh[Mod10] Sn := StemName[Mod10] B := BranchCh[Mod12] Bn := BranchName[Mod12] return year "`t" S B " " Sn "-" Bn " `t" E " " Ec " " En "`t" A " " Ac " " An "`t" YY " " Yr }</lang> Examples:<lang AutoHotkey>loop 12 { n := 1983+A_Index output .= Chinese_zodiac(n) "`n" } MsgBox % output "`n" Chinese_zodiac(2017) return</lang>

Output:
1984	甲子 jiă-zĭ 	Wood 木 mù	Rat 鼠 shǔ	yáng 阳 1/60
1985	乙丑 yĭ-chŏu 	Wood 木 mù	Ox 牛 niú	yīn 阴 2/60
1986	丙寅 bĭng-yín 	Fire 火 huǒ	Tiger 虎 hǔ	yáng 阳 3/60
1987	丁卯 dīng-măo 	Fire 火 huǒ	Rabbit 兔 tù	yīn 阴 4/60
1988	戊辰 wù-chén 	Earth 土 tǔ	Dragon 龍 lóng	yáng 阳 5/60
1989	己巳 jĭ-sì 	Earth 土 tǔ	Snake 蛇 shé	yīn 阴 6/60
1990	庚午 gēng-wŭ 	Metal 金 jīn	Horse 馬 mǎ	yáng 阳 7/60
1991	辛未 xīn-wèi 	Metal 金 jīn	Goat 羊 yáng	yīn 阴 8/60
1992	壬申 rén-shēn 	Water 水 shuǐ	Monkey 猴 hóu	yáng 阳 9/60
1993	癸酉 gŭi-yŏu 	Water 水 shuǐ	Rooster 鸡 jī	yīn 阴 10/60
1994	甲戌 jiă-xū 	Wood 木 mù	Dog 狗 gǒu	yáng 阳 11/60
1995	乙亥 yĭ-hài 	Wood 木 mù	Pig 豬 zhū	yīn 阴 12/60

2017	丁酉 dīng-yŏu 	Fire 火 huǒ	Rooster 鸡 jī	yīn 阴 34/60

AWK

<lang AWK>

  1. syntax: GAWK -f CHINESE_ZODIAC.AWK

BEGIN {

   print("year element animal  aspect")
   split("Rat,Ox,Tiger,Rabbit,Dragon,Snake,Horse,Goat,Monkey,Rooster,Dog,Pig",animal_arr,",")
   split("Wood,Fire,Earth,Metal,Water",element_arr,",")
   n = split("1935,1938,1968,1972,1976,1984,1985,2017",year_arr,",")
   for (i=1; i<=n; i++) {
     year = year_arr[i]
     element = element_arr[int((year-4)%10/2)+1]
     animal = animal_arr[(year-4)%12+1]
     yy = (year%2 == 0) ? "Yang" : "Yin"
     printf("%4d %-7s %-7s %s\n",year,element,animal,yy)
   }
   exit(0)

} </lang>

Output:
year element animal  aspect
1935 Wood    Pig     Yin
1938 Earth   Tiger   Yang
1968 Earth   Monkey  Yang
1972 Water   Rat     Yang
1976 Fire    Dragon  Yang
1984 Wood    Rat     Yang
1985 Wood    Ox      Yin
2017 Fire    Rooster Yin

BASIC256

<lang BASIC256>

  1. Chinese zodiac

elementos = {"Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"} animales = {"Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake", "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig"} aspectos = {"Yang","Yin"} tallo_celestial = {'甲', '乙', '丙', '丁', '戊', '己', '庚', '辛', '壬', '癸'} rama_terrestre = {'子','丑','寅','卯','辰','巳','午','未','申','酉','戌','亥'} tallos_pinyin = {"jiă","yĭ","bĭng","dīng","wù","jĭ","gēng","xīn","rén","gŭi"} ramas_pinyin = {"zĭ","chŏu","yín","măo","chén","sì","wŭ","wèi","shēn","yŏu","xū","hài"} years = {1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 2017}

For i = 0 To years[?]-1 xYear = years[i] yElemento = elementos[((xYear - 4) % 10) \ 2] yAnimal = animales[ (xYear - 4) % 12 ] yAspectos = aspectos[ xYear  % 2 ] ytallo_celestial = tallo_celestial[((xYear - 4) % 10)] yrama_terrestre = rama_terrestre[ (xYear - 4) % 12 ] ytallos_pinyin = tallos_pinyin[ ((xYear - 4) % 10)] yramas_pinyin = ramas_pinyin[ (xYear - 4) % 12 ] ciclo = ((xYear - 4) % 60) + 1 Print xYear & ": " & ytallo_celestial & yrama_terrestre & " (" & ytallos_pinyin & "-" & yramas_pinyin & ", " & yElemento & " " & yAnimal & "; " & yAspectos & " - ciclo " &ciclo & "/60)" Next i End </lang>

Output:
1935: 乙亥 (yĭ-hài, Wood Pig; Yin - ciclo 12/60)
1938: 戊寅 (wù-yín, Earth Tiger; Yang - ciclo 15/60)
1968: 戊申 (wù-shēn, Earth Monkey; Yang - ciclo 45/60)
1972: 壬子 (rén-zĭ, Water Rat; Yang - ciclo 49/60)
1976: 丙辰 (bĭng-chén, Fire Dragon; Yang - ciclo 53/60)
1984: 甲子 (jiă-zĭ, Wood Rat; Yang - ciclo 1/60)
2017: 丁酉 (dīng-yŏu, Fire Rooster; Yin - ciclo 34/60)

Befunge

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$'-4;AGLS[_ %*06yang yin Rat Ox Tiger R |

abbit Dragon Snake Horse Goat Monkey Roo | ster Dog Pig Wood Fire Earth Metal Water |</lang>

Output:
Year:    2018
Element: Earth
Animal:  Dog
Aspect:  yang
Cycle:   35 / 60

C

Translation of: C++

<lang c>#include <math.h>

  1. include <stdio.h>

const char* animals[] = { "Rat","Ox","Tiger","Rabbit","Dragon","Snake","Horse","Goat","Monkey","Rooster","Dog","Pig" }; const char* elements[] = { "Wood","Fire","Earth","Metal","Water" };

const char* getElement(int year) {

   int element = (int)floor((year - 4) % 10 / 2);
   return elements[element];

}

const char* getAnimal(int year) {

   return animals[(year - 4) % 12];

}

const char* getYY(int year) {

   if (year % 2 == 0) {
       return "yang";
   } else {
       return "yin";
   }

}

int main() {

   int years[] = { 1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 2017 };
   int i;
   //the zodiac cycle didnt start until 4 CE, so years <4 shouldnt be valid
   for (i = 0; i < 6; ++i) {
       int year = years[i];
       printf("%d is the year of the %s %s (%s).\n", year, getElement(year), getAnimal(year), getYY(year));
   }
   return 0;

}</lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (yin).
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (yang).
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (yang).
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (yang).
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (yang).
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (yin).

C#

Translation of: Java

<lang csharp>using System;

namespace ChineseZodiac {

   class Program {
       static string[] animals = { "Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake", "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig" };
       static string[] elements = { "Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water" };
       static string[] animalChars = { "子", "丑", "寅", "卯", "辰", "巳", "午", "未", "申", "酉", "戌", "亥" };
       static string[,] elementChars = { { "甲", "丙", "戊", "庚", "壬" }, { "乙", "丁", "己", "辛", "癸" } };
       static string getYY(int year) {
           if (year % 2 == 0) {
               return "yang";
           }
           return "yin";
       }
       static void Main(string[] args) {
           Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
           int[] years = { 1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1985, 2017 };
           for (int i = 0; i < years.Length; i++) {
               int ei = (int)Math.Floor((years[i] - 4.0) % 10 / 2);
               int ai = (years[i] - 4) % 12;
               Console.WriteLine("{0} is the year of the {1} {2} ({3}). {4}{5}", years[i], elements[ei], animals[ai], getYY(years[i]), elementChars[years[i] % 2, ei], animalChars[(years[i] - 4) % 12]);
           }
       }
   }

}</lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (yin). 乙亥
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (yang). 戊寅
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (yang). 戊申
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (yang). 壬子
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (yang). 丙辰
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (yang). 甲子
1985 is the year of the Wood Ox (yin). 乙丑
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (yin). 丁酉

C++

<lang cpp>#include <iostream>

  1. include <cmath>

using namespace std;

const string animals[]={"Rat","Ox","Tiger","Rabbit","Dragon","Snake","Horse","Goat","Monkey","Rooster","Dog","Pig"}; const string elements[]={"Wood","Fire","Earth","Metal","Water"};

string getElement(int year) {

   int element = floor((year-4)%10/2);
   return elements[element];

}

string getAnimal(int year) {

   return animals[(year-4)%12];

}

string getYY(int year) {

   if(year%2==0)
   {
       return "yang";
   }
   else
   {
       return "yin";
   }

}

int main() {

   int years[]={1935,1938,1968,1972,1976,2017};
   //the zodiac cycle didnt start until 4 CE, so years <4 shouldnt be valid
   for(int i=0;i<6;i++)
   {
       cout << years[i] << " is the year of the " << getElement(years[i]) << " " << getAnimal(years[i]) << " (" << getYY(years[i]) << ")." << endl;
   }
   return 0;

}</lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (yin).
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (yang).
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (yang).
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (yang).
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (yang).
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (yin).

Clojure

<lang clojure>(def base-year 4) (def celestial-stems ["甲" "乙" "丙" "丁" "戊" "己" "庚" "辛" "壬" "癸"]) (def terrestrial-branches ["子" "丑" "寅" "卯" "辰" "巳" "午" "未" "申" "酉" "戌" "亥"]) (def zodiac-animals ["Rat" "Ox" "Tiger" "Rabbit" "Dragon" "Snake" "Horse" "Goat" "Monkey" "Rooster" "Dog" "Pig"]) (def elements ["Wood" "Fire" "Earth" "Metal" "Water"]) (def aspects ["yang" "yin"]) (def pinyin (zipmap (concat celestial-stems terrestrial-branches)

                '("jiă" "yĭ" "bĭng" "dīng" "wù" "jĭ" "gēng" "xīn" "rén" "gŭi"
                  "zĭ" "chŏu" "yín" "măo" "chén" "sì" "wŭ" "wèi" "shēn" "yŏu" "xū" "hài")))

(defn chinese-zodiac [year]

 (let [cycle-year (- year base-year)
       cycle-position (inc (mod cycle-year 60))
       stem-number (mod cycle-year 10)
       stem-han (nth celestial-stems stem-number)
       stem-pinyin (get pinyin stem-han)
       element-number (int (Math/floor (/ stem-number 2)))
       element (nth elements element-number)
       branch-number (mod cycle-year 12)
       branch-han (nth terrestrial-branches branch-number)
       branch-pinyin (get pinyin branch-han)
       zodiac-animal (nth zodiac-animals branch-number)
       aspect-number (mod cycle-year 2)
       aspect (nth aspects aspect-number)]
   (println (format "%s: %s%s (%s-%s, %s %s; %s - cycle %s/60)"
                    year stem-han branch-han stem-pinyin branch-pinyin element zodiac-animal aspect cycle-position))))

(defn -main [& args]

 (doseq [years (map read-string args)]
   (chinese-zodiac years)))</lang>
Output:
$ lein run 1935 1938 1968 1972 1976 1984 2017
1935: 乙亥 (yĭ-hài, Wood Pig; yin - cycle 12/60)
1938: 戊寅 (wù-yín, Earth Tiger; yang - cycle 15/60)
1968: 戊申 (wù-shēn, Earth Monkey; yang - cycle 45/60)
1972: 壬子 (rén-zĭ, Water Rat; yang - cycle 49/60)
1976: 丙辰 (bĭng-chén, Fire Dragon; yang - cycle 53/60)
1984: 甲子 (jiă-zĭ, Wood Rat; yang - cycle 1/60)
2017: 丁酉 (dīng-yŏu, Fire Rooster; yin - cycle 34/60)

Commodore BASIC

Works with: Commodore 64/128

<lang basic>1000 rem display the chinese zodiac for a given year 1010 poke 53281,7: rem yellow background 1020 poke 53280,2: rem red border 1030 poke 646,2: rem red text 1040 h1$="chinese zodiac":gosub 2000 set-heading 1050 gosub 3000 initialize-data 1060 print 1070 print "enter year (return to quit):"; 1080 get k$:if k$="" then 1080 1090 if k$=chr$(13) then end 1100 poke 631,asc(k$):poke 198,1:rem ungetc(k$) 1110 open 1,0: input#1, y$: close 1:print 1120 if val(y$)=0 and y$<>"0" then print chr$(145):goto 1060 1130 y=val(y$)-4 1140 sy=fnym(60): rem year of the sexagesimal cycle 1150 cs=fnym(10): rem celestial stem 1160 tb=fnym(12): rem terrestrial branch 1170 el=int(cs/2): rem element 1180 za=tb: rem zodiac animal 1190 as=fnym(2): rem aspect 1200 print 1210 print "the chinese year beginning in ce "y$ 1220 print "is "cs$(cs)"-"tb$(tb)", year"(sy+1)"of 60," 1230 print "the year of the "el$(el)" "za$(za)" ("as$(as)")." 1260 goto 1060 1270 end 2000 print chr$(147);chr$(18);"****"; 2010 sp=32-len(h1$) 2020 for i=1 to int(sp/2) 2030 : print " "; 2040 next i 2050 print h1$; 2060 for i=i to sp 2070 : print " "; 2080 next i 2090 print "****"; 2100 return 3000 dim cs$(9): rem ten celestial stems 3010 dim tb$(11): rem twelve terrestrial branches 3020 dim za$(11): rem twelve "zodiac" animals 3030 dim el$(4): rem five elements 3040 dim as$(1): rem two aspects 3050 for i=0 to 9 3060 : read cs$(i) 3070 next i 3080 data jia3, yi3, bing3, ding1, wu4 3090 data ji3, geng1, xin1, ren2, gui3 3100 for i=0 to 11 3110 : read tb$(i) 3120 next i 3130 data zi3, chou3, yin2, mao3 3140 data chen2, si4, wu3, wei4 3150 data shen2, you3, xu1, hai4 3160 for i=0 to 11 3170 : read za$(i) 3180 next i 3190 data rat, ox, tiger, rabbit 3200 data dragon, snake, horse, goat 3210 data monkey, rooster, dog, pig 3220 for i=0 to 4 3230 : read el$(i) 3240 next i 3250 data wood, fire, earth 3260 data metal, water 3270 for i=0 to 1 3280 : read as$(i) 3290 next i 3300 data yang, yin 3310 rem year-mod function 3320 def fnym(d) = y - int(y/d)*d 3330 return</lang>

Output:

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Common Lisp

Translation of: Ruby

<lang lisp>; Any CE Year that was the first of a 60-year cycle (defconstant base-year 1984)

(defconstant celestial-stems

 '("甲" "乙" "丙" "丁" "戊" "己" "庚" "辛" "壬" "癸"))

(defconstant terrestrial-branches

 '("子" "丑" "寅" "卯" "辰" "巳" "午" "未" "申" "酉" "戌" "亥"))

(defconstant zodiac-animals

 '("Rat"   "Ox"   "Tiger"  "Rabbit"  "Dragon" "Snake"
   "Horse" "Goat" "Monkey" "Rooster" "Dog"    "Pig"))

(defconstant elements '("Wood" "Fire" "Earth" "Metal" "Water"))

(defconstant aspects '("yang" "yin"))

(defconstant pinyin

 (pairlis (append celestial-stems terrestrial-branches)
   '("jiă" "yĭ" "bĭng" "dīng" "wù" "jĭ" "gēng" "xīn" "rén" "gŭi"
     "zĭ" "chŏu" "yín" "măo" "chén" "sì" "wŭ" "wèi" "shēn" "yŏu" "xū" "hài")))

(defun this-year () (nth 5 (multiple-value-list (get-decoded-time))))

(defun pinyin-for (han) (cdr (assoc han pinyin :test #'string=)))

(defun chinese-zodiac (&rest years)

(loop for ce-year in (if (null years) (list (this-year)) years) collecting
  (let* ((cycle-year (- ce-year base-year))
         (stem-number (mod cycle-year 10))
         (stem-han    (nth stem-number celestial-stems))
         (stem-pinyin (pinyin-for stem-han))
         (element-number (floor stem-number 2))
         (element        (nth element-number elements))
         (branch-number (mod cycle-year 12))
         (branch-han    (nth branch-number terrestrial-branches))
         (branch-pinyin (pinyin-for branch-han))
         (zodiac-animal (nth branch-number zodiac-animals))
         (aspect-number (mod cycle-year 2))
         (aspect        (nth aspect-number aspects)))
         (cons ce-year (list stem-han branch-han stem-pinyin branch-pinyin element zodiac-animal aspect)))))

(defun get-args ()

 (or
  #+CLISP *args*
  #+SBCL (cdr *posix-argv*)
  #+LISPWORKS system:*line-arguments-list*
  #+CMU extensions:*command-line-words*
  nil))

(loop for cz in (apply #'chinese-zodiac (mapcar #'read-from-string (get-args)))

doing
 (format t "~{~a: ~a~a (~a-~a, ~a ~a; ~a)~%~}" cz))</lang>
Output:
$ sbcl --script cz.cl
2017: 丁酉 (dīng-yŏu, Fire Rooster; yin)
$ clisp cz.cl  193{5,8} 194{1,7} 1968 197{2,6}
1935: 乙亥 (yĭ-hài, Wood Pig; yin)
1938: 戊寅 (wù-yín, Earth Tiger; yang)
1941: 辛巳 (xīn-sì, Metal Snake; yin)
1947: 丁亥 (dīng-hài, Fire Pig; yin)
1968: 戊申 (wù-shēn, Earth Monkey; yang)
1972: 壬子 (rén-zĭ, Water Rat; yang)
1976: 丙辰 (bĭng-chén, Fire Dragon; yang)

D

Translation of: haskell

<lang D>import std.stdio;

// 10 heavenly stems immutable tiangan=[

   ["甲","乙","丙","丁","戊","己","庚","辛","壬","癸"],
   ["jiă","yĭ","bĭng","dīng","wù","jĭ","gēng","xīn","rén","gŭi"]

];

// 12 terrestrial branches immutable dizhi=[

   ["子","丑","寅","卯","辰","巳","午","未","申","酉","戌","亥"],
   ["zĭ","chŏu","yín","măo","chén","sì","wŭ","wèi","shēn","yŏu","xū","hài"]

];

// 5 elements immutable wuxing=[

   ["木","火","土","金","水"],
   ["mù","huǒ","tǔ","jīn","shuǐ"],
   ["wood","fire","earth","metal","water"]

];

// 12 symbolic animals immutable shengxiao=[

   ["鼠","牛","虎","兔","龍","蛇","馬","羊","猴","鸡","狗","豬"],
   ["shǔ","niú","hǔ","tù","lóng","shé","mǎ","yáng","hóu","jī","gǒu","zhū"],
   ["rat","ox","tiger","rabbit","dragon","snake","horse","goat","monkey","rooster","dog","pig"]

];

// yin yang immutable yinyang=[

   ["阳","阴"],
   ["yáng","yīn"]

];

void main(string[] args) {

   process(args[1..$]);

}

void process(string[] years) {

   import std.conv;
   foreach(yearStr; years) {
       try {
           auto year = to!int(yearStr);
           auto cy = year - 4;
           auto stem = cy % 10;
           auto branch = cy % 12;
           writefln("%4s  %-11s  %-7s  %-10s%s", year,tiangan[0][stem]~dizhi[0][branch], wuxing[0][stem/2], shengxiao[0][branch], yinyang[0][year%2]);
           writefln("      %-12s%-8s%-10s%s",      tiangan[1][stem]~dizhi[1][branch],    wuxing[1][stem/2], shengxiao[1][branch], yinyang[1][year%2]);
           writefln("      %2s/60     %-7s%s", cy%60+1,                                  wuxing[2][stem/2], shengxiao[2][branch]);
           writeln;
       } catch (ConvException e) {
           stderr.writeln("Not a valid year: ", yearStr);
       }
   }

} </lang>

Output:
1935  乙亥        木      豬       阴  
      yĭhài      mù      zhū     yīn 
      12/60      wood    pig         

1938  戊寅        土      虎       阳  
      wùyín      tǔ      hǔ      yáng
      15/60      earth   tiger       

1968  戊申        土      猴       阳  
      wùshēn     tǔ      hóu     yáng
      45/60      earth   monkey      

1972  壬子        水      鼠       阳  
      rénzĭ      shuǐ    shǔ     yáng
      49/60      water   rat         

1976  丙辰        火      龍       阳  
      bĭngchén   huǒ     lóng    yáng
      53/60      fire    dragon      

1984  甲子        木      鼠       阳  
      jiăzĭ      mù      shǔ     yáng
      1/60       wood    rat         

2017  丁酉        火      鸡       阴  
      dīngyŏu    huǒ     jī      yīn 
      34/60      fire    rooster     

Delphi

Library: System.Math
Translation of: C#

<lang Delphi> program Chinese_zodiac;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses

 Winapi.Windows,
 System.SysUtils,
 System.Math;

type

 TElements = array of array of char;
 TChineseZodiac = record
   Year: Integer;
   Yyear: string;
   Animal: string;
   Element: string;
   AnimalChar: char;
   ElementChar: char;
   procedure Assign(aYear: Integer);
   function ToString: string;
 end;

const

 animals: TArray<string> = ['Rat', 'Ox', 'Tiger', 'Rabbit', 'Dragon', 'Snake',
   'Horse', 'Goat', 'Monkey', 'Rooster', 'Dog', 'Pig'];
 elements: TArray<string> = ['Wood', 'Fire', 'Earth', 'Metal', 'Water'];
 animalChars: TArray<char> = ['子', '丑', '寅', '卯', '辰', '巳', '午', '未', '申', '酉',
   '戌', '亥'];
 elementChars: TElements = [['甲', '丙', '戊', '庚', '壬'], ['乙', '丁', '己', '辛', '癸']];


function getYY(year: Integer): string; begin

 if (year mod 2) = 0 then
 begin
   Exit('yang');
 end;
 Exit('yin');

end;

{ TChineseZodiac }

procedure TChineseZodiac.Assign(aYear: Integer); var

 ei, ai: Integer;

begin

 ei := Trunc(Floor((Trunc(aYear - 4.0) mod 10) / 2));
 ai := (aYear - 4) mod 12;
 year := aYear;
 Element := elements[ei];
 Animal := animals[ai];
 ElementChar := elementChars[aYear mod 2, ei];
 AnimalChar := animalChars[(aYear - 4) mod 12];
 Yyear := getYY(aYear);

end;

var

 z: TChineseZodiac;
 years: TArray<Integer> = [1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1985, 2017];
 year: integer;

function TChineseZodiac.ToString: string; begin

 Result := Format('%d is the year of the %s %s (%s). %s%s', [year, Element,
   Animal, Yyear, ElementChar, AnimalChar]);

end;

var

 Outfile: TextFile;
 Written: Cardinal;

begin

 SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
 AssignFile(Outfile, 'Output.txt', CP_UTF8);
 Rewrite(Outfile);
 for year in years do
 begin
   z.Assign(year);
   Writeln(Outfile, z.ToString);
   Writeln(z.ToString);
 end;
 CloseFile(Outfile);
 Readln;

end.</lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (yin). 乙亥
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (yang). 戊寅
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (yang). 戊申
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (yang). 壬子
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (yang). 丙辰
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (yang). 甲子
1985 is the year of the Wood Ox (yin). 乙丑
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (yin). 丁酉

Excel

LAMBDA

Binding the name to the following lambda expressions in the Name Manager of the Excel WorkBook:

(See LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function)

<lang lisp>CNZODIAC =LAMBDA(y,

   APPENDCOLS(
       APPENDCOLS(
           APPENDCOLS(
               CNYEARNAME(y)
           )(
               CNYEARELEMENT(y)
           )
       )(
           CNYEARANIMAL(y)
       )
   )(
       CNYEARYINYANG(y)
   )

)


CNYEARANIMAL =LAMBDA(y,

   LET(
       shengxiao, {
        "鼠","shǔ","rat";
        "牛","niú","ox";
        "虎","hǔ","tiger";
        "兔","tù","rabbit";
        "龍","lóng","dragon";
        "蛇","shé","snake";
        "馬","mǎ","horse";
        "羊","yáng","goat";
        "猴","hóu","monkey";
        "鸡","jī","rooster";
        "狗","gǒu","dog";
        "豬","zhū","pig"
        },
        
       iYear, y - 4,
       iBranch, 1 + MOD(iYear, 12),
        
       TRANSPOSE(
           INDEX(shengxiao, iBranch)
       )
   )

)


CNYEARELEMENT =LAMBDA(y,

   LET(
       wuxing, {
        "木","mù","wood";
        "火","huǒ","fire";
        "土","tǔ","earth";
        "金","jīn","metal";
        "水","shuǐ","water"
        },
       
       iYear, y - 4,
       iStem, MOD(iYear, 10),
       TRANSPOSE(
           INDEX(
               wuxing, 
               1 + QUOTIENT(
                   iStem, 
                   2
               )
           )
       )
   )

)


CNYEARNAME =LAMBDA(y,

   LET(
       tiangan, {
        "甲","jiă";
        "乙","yĭ";
        "丙","bĭng";
        "丁","dīng";
        "戊","wù";
        "己","jĭ";
        "庚","gēng";
        "辛","xīn";
        "壬","rén";
        "癸","gŭi"
        },
   
        dizhi, {
        "子","zĭ";
        "丑","chŏu";
        "寅","yín";
        "卯","măo";
        "辰","chén";
        "巳","sì";
        "午","wŭ";
        "未","wèi";
        "申","shēn";
        "酉","yŏu";
        "戌","xū";
        "亥","hài"
        },
        
       iYear, y - 4,
       iStem, 1 + MOD(iYear, 10),
       iBranch, 1 + MOD(iYear, 12),
       iIndex, 1 + MOD(iYear, 60),
        
       stem, INDEX(tiangan, iStem),
       branch, INDEX(dizhi, iBranch),
        
       APPENDROWS(
           APPENDROWS(
               CONCAT(INDEX(stem, 1), INDEX(branch, 1))
           )(
               CONCAT(INDEX(stem, 2), INDEX(branch, 2))
           )
       )(iIndex & "/60")
   )

)


CNYEARYINYANG =LAMBDA(y,

   LET(
       yinyang, {
        "阳","yáng", "bright";
        "阴","yīn", "dark"
        },
        
       TRANSPOSE(
           INDEX(
               yinyang,
               1 + MOD(y - 4, 2)
           )
       )
   )

)</lang>

and also assuming the following generic bindings in the Name Manager for the WorkBook:

<lang lisp>APPENDCOLS =LAMBDA(xs,

   LAMBDA(ys,
       LET(
           nx, COLUMNS(xs),
           colIndexes, SEQUENCE(1, nx + COLUMNS(ys)),
           rowIndexes, SEQUENCE(MAX(ROWS(xs), ROWS(ys))),
           IFERROR(
               IF(nx < colIndexes,
                   INDEX(ys, rowIndexes, colIndexes - nx),
                   INDEX(xs, rowIndexes, colIndexes)
               ),
               NA()
           )
       )
   )

)


APPENDROWS =LAMBDA(xs,

   LAMBDA(ys,
       LET(
           nx, ROWS(xs),
           rowIndexes, SEQUENCE(nx + ROWS(ys)),
           colIndexes, SEQUENCE(
               1,
               MAX(COLUMNS(xs), COLUMNS(ys))
           ),
           IFERROR(
               IF(rowIndexes <= nx,
                   INDEX(xs, rowIndexes, colIndexes),
                   INDEX(ys, rowIndexes - nx, colIndexes)
               ),
               NA()
           )
       )
   )

)</lang>

Output:

The formula in cell B2 defines a dynamic array, populating the grid B2:E4

fx =CNZODIAC(A2)
A B C D E
1 Year Name Element Animal Yinyang
2 1935 乙亥
3 yĭhài zhū yīn
4 12/60 wood pig dark
5 1938 戊寅
6 wùyín yáng
7 15/60 earth tiger bright
8 1968 戊申
9 wùshēn hóu yáng
10 45/60 earth monkey bright
11 1972 壬子
12 rénzĭ shuǐ shǔ yáng
13 49/60 water rat bright
14 1976 丙辰
15 bĭngchén huǒ lóng yáng
16 53/60 fire dragon bright
17 1984 甲子
18 jiăzĭ shǔ yáng
19 1/60 wood rat bright
20 2017 丁酉
21 dīngyŏu huǒ yīn
22 34/60 fire rooster dark
23 2021 辛丑
24 xīnchŏu jīn niú yīn
25 38/60 metal ox dark
26 2022 壬寅
27 rényín shuǐ yáng
28 39/60 water tiger bright

F#

<lang fsharp> open System

let animals = ["Rat";"Ox";"Tiger";"Rabbit";"Dragon";"Snake";"Horse";"Goat";"Monkey";"Rooster";"Dog";"Pig"] let elements = ["Wood";"Fire";"Earth";"Metal";"Water"] let years = [1935;1938;1968;1972;1976;1984;1985;2017]

let getZodiac(year: int) =

   let animal = animals.Item((year-4)%12)
   let element = elements.Item(((year-4)%10)/2)
   let yy = if year%2 = 0 then "(Yang)" else "(Yin)"
   
   String.Format("{0} is the year of the {1} {2} {3}", year, element, animal, yy)

[<EntryPoint>] let main argv =

   let mutable string = ""
   for i in years do 
       string <- getZodiac(i)
       printf "%s" string
       Console.ReadLine() |> ignore
   0 // return an integer exit code

</lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (Yin)
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (Yang)
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (Yang)
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (Yang)
1976 is the year of the Fire dragon (Yang)
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (Yang)
1985 is the year of the Wood Ox (Yin)
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (Yin)

Factor

<lang factor>USING: circular formatting io kernel math qw sequences sequences.repeating ; IN: rosetta-code.zodiac

<PRIVATE

! Offset start index by -4 because first cycle started on 4 CE.

circularize ( seq -- obj )
   [ -4 ] dip <circular> [ change-circular-start ] keep ;
animals ( -- obj )
   qw{
       Rat Ox Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake Horse Goat Monkey
       Rooster Dog Pig
   } circularize ;
elements ( -- obj )
   qw{ Wood Fire Earth Metal Water } 2 <repeats> circularize ;

PRIVATE>

zodiac ( n -- str )
   dup [ elements nth ] [ animals nth ]
   [ even? "yang" "yin" ? ] tri
   "%d is the year of the %s %s (%s)." sprintf ;
zodiac-demo ( -- )
   { 1935 1938 1968 1972 1976 1984 1985 2017 }
   [ zodiac print ] each ;

MAIN: zodiac-demo</lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (yin).
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (yang).
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (yang).
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (yang).
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (yang).
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (yang).
1985 is the year of the Wood Ox (yin).
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (yin).

FreeBASIC

<lang freebasic>dim as string yy(0 to 1) = {"yang", "yin"} dim as string elements(0 to 4) = {"Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"} dim as string animals(0 to 11) = {"Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake",_

                                 "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig"}

dim as uinteger yr, y, e, a, i, tests(0 to 5) = {1801, 1861, 1984, 2020, 2186, 76543} dim as string outstr

for i = 0 to 5

  yr = tests(i)
  y = yr mod 2
  e = (yr - 4) mod 5
  a = (yr - 4) mod 12
  outstr = str(yr)+" is the year of the "
  outstr += elements(e)+" " + animals(a) + " (" + yy(y) + ")." 
  
  print outstr

next i</lang>

Output:
1801 is the year of the Earth Rooster (yin).
1861 is the year of the Earth Rooster (yin).
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (yang).
2020 is the year of the Fire Rat (yang).
2186 is the year of the Earth Dog (yang).
76543 is the year of the Water Rabbit (yin).

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Go

<lang go>package main

import "fmt"

var (

   animalString = []string{"Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake",
       "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig"}
   stemYYString  = []string{"Yang", "Yin"}
   elementString = []string{"Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"}
   stemCh        = []rune("甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸")
   branchCh      = []rune("子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥")

)

func cz(yr int) (animal, yinYang, element, stemBranch string, cycleYear int) {

   yr -= 4
   stem := yr % 10
   branch := yr % 12
   return animalString[branch],
       stemYYString[stem%2],
       elementString[stem/2],
       string([]rune{stemCh[stem], branchCh[branch]}),
       yr%60 + 1

}

func main() {

   for _, yr := range []int{1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976} {
       a, yy, e, sb, cy := cz(yr)
       fmt.Printf("%d: %s %s, %s, Cycle year %d %s\n",
           yr, e, a, yy, cy, sb)
   }

}</lang>

Output:
1935: Wood Pig, Yin, Cycle year 12 乙亥
1938: Earth Tiger, Yang, Cycle year 15 戊寅
1968: Earth Monkey, Yang, Cycle year 45 戊申
1972: Water Rat, Yang, Cycle year 49 壬子
1976: Fire Dragon, Yang, Cycle year 53 丙辰

Groovy

Translation of: Java

<lang groovy>class Zodiac {

   final static String[] animals = ["Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake", "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig"]
   final static String[] elements = ["Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"]
   final static String[] animalChars = ["子", "丑", "寅", "卯", "辰", "巳", "午", "未", "申", "酉", "戌", "亥"]
   static String[][] elementChars = [["甲", "丙", "戊", "庚", "壬"], ["乙", "丁", "己", "辛", "癸"]]
   static String getYY(int year) {
       if (year % 2 == 0) {
           return "yang"
       } else {
           return "yin"
       }
   }
   static void main(String[] args) {
       int[] years = [1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1985, 2017]
       for (int i = 0; i < years.length; i++) {
           println(years[i] + " is the year of the " + elements[(int) Math.floor((years[i] - 4) % 10 / 2)] + " " + animals[(years[i] - 4) % 12] + " (" + getYY(years[i]) + "). " + elementChars[years[i] % 2][(int) Math.floor((years[i] - 4) % 10 / 2)] + animalChars[(years[i] - 4) % 12])
       }
   }

}</lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (yin). 乙亥
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (yang). 戊寅
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (yang). 戊申
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (yang). 壬子
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (yang). 丙辰
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (yang). 甲子
1985 is the year of the Wood Ox (yin). 乙丑
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (yin). 丁酉

Haskell

(We can use Chinese characters in Haskell names, as long as the first character is lower-case alphabetic) <lang haskell>import Data.Array (Array, listArray, (!))


TRADITIONAL STRINGS ------------------

ats :: Array Int (Char, String) ats =

 listArray (0, 9) $
   zip
     -- 天干 tiangan – 10 heavenly stems
     "甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸"
     (words "jiă yĭ bĭng dīng wù jĭ gēng xīn rén gŭi")

ads :: Array Int (String, String) ads =

 listArray (0, 11) $
   zip
     -- 地支 dizhi – 12 terrestrial branches
     (chars "子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥")
     ( words $
         "zĭ chŏu yín măo chén sì "
           <> "wŭ wèi shēn yŏu xū hài"
     )

aws :: Array Int (String, String, String) aws =

 listArray (0, 4) $
   zip3
     -- 五行 wuxing – 5 elements
     (chars "木火土金水")
     (words "mù huǒ tǔ jīn shuǐ")
     (words "wood fire earth metal water")

axs :: Array Int (String, String, String) axs =

 listArray (0, 11) $
   zip3
     -- 十二生肖 shengxiao – 12 symbolic animals
     (chars "鼠牛虎兔龍蛇馬羊猴鸡狗豬")
     ( words $
         "shǔ niú hǔ tù lóng shé "
           <> "mǎ yáng hóu jī gǒu zhū"
     )
     ( words $
         "rat ox tiger rabbit dragon snake "
           <> "horse goat monkey rooster dog pig"
     )

ays :: Array Int (String, String) -- 阴阳 yinyang ays =

 listArray (0, 1) $
   zip (chars "阳阴") (words "yáng yīn")

chars :: String -> [String] chars = (flip (:) [] <$>)


TRADITIONAL CYCLES ------------------

f生肖五行年份 y =

 let i年份 = y - 4
     i天干 = rem i年份 10
     i地支 = rem i年份 12
     (h天干, p天干) = ats ! i天干
     (h地支, p地支) = ads ! i地支
     (h五行, p五行, e五行) = aws ! quot i天干 2
     (h生肖, p生肖, e生肖) = axs ! i地支
     (h阴阳, p阴阳) = ays ! rem i年份 2
  in -- 汉子 Chinese characters
     [ [show y, h天干 : h地支, h五行, h生肖, h阴阳],
       -- Pinyin roman transcription
       [[], p天干 <> p地支, p五行, p生肖, p阴阳],
       -- English
       [ [],
         show (rem i年份 60 + 1) <> "/60",
         e五行,
         e生肖,
         []
       ]
     ]

TEST -------------------------

main :: IO () main =

 mapM_ putStrLn $
   showYear
     <$> [1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 2017]

FORMATTING ----------------------

fieldWidths :: Int fieldWidths =

 [ [6, 10, 7, 8, 3],
   [6, 11, 8, 8, 4],
   [6, 11, 8, 8, 4]
 ]

showYear :: Int -> String showYear y =

 unlines $
   ( \(ns, xs) ->
       concat $
         uncurry (`justifyLeft` ' ')
           <$> zip ns xs
   )
     <$> zip fieldWidths (f生肖五行年份 y)
 where
   justifyLeft n c s = take n (s <> replicate n c)</lang>
Output:
1935  乙亥        木      豬       阴  
      yĭhài      mù      zhū     yīn 
      12/60      wood    pig         

1938  戊寅        土      虎       阳  
      wùyín      tǔ      hǔ      yáng
      15/60      earth   tiger       

1968  戊申        土      猴       阳  
      wùshēn     tǔ      hóu     yáng
      45/60      earth   monkey      

1972  壬子        水      鼠       阳  
      rénzĭ      shuǐ    shǔ     yáng
      49/60      water   rat         

1976  丙辰        火      龍       阳  
      bĭngchén   huǒ     lóng    yáng
      53/60      fire    dragon      

1984  甲子        木      鼠       阳  
      jiăzĭ      mù      shǔ     yáng
      1/60       wood    rat         

2017  丁酉        火      鸡       阴  
      dīngyŏu    huǒ     jī      yīn 
      34/60      fire    rooster   

J

<lang J> ELEMENTS=: _4 |. 2 # ;:'Wood Fire Earth Metal Water'

  YEARS=: 1935 1938 1968 1972 1976 2017
  ANIMALS=: _4 |. ;:'Rat Ox Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake Horse Goat Monkey Rooster Dog Pig'
  YINYANG=: ;:'yang yin'
  cz=: (|~ #)~ { [
  ANIMALS cz YEARS

┌───┬─────┬──────┬───┬──────┬───────┐ │Pig│Tiger│Monkey│Rat│Dragon│Rooster│ └───┴─────┴──────┴───┴──────┴───────┘

  YINYANG cz YEARS

┌───┬────┬────┬────┬────┬───┐ │yin│yang│yang│yang│yang│yin│ └───┴────┴────┴────┴────┴───┘

  chinese_zodiac =: 3 : ';:inv(<":y),(ELEMENTS cz y),(ANIMALS cz y),(<(),(YINYANG cz y),(<))'
  chinese_zodiac&>YEARS

1935 Wood Pig ( yin ) 1938 Earth Tiger ( yang ) 1968 Earth Monkey ( yang ) 1972 Water Rat ( yang ) 1976 Fire Dragon ( yang ) 2017 Fire Rooster ( yin )


  'CELESTIAL TERRESTRIAL'=:7&u:&.>{&a.&.> 16be7 16b94 16bb2 16be4 16bb9 16b99 16be4 16bb8 16b99 16be4 16bb8 16b81 16be6 16b88 16b8a 16be5 16bb7 16bb1 16be5 16bba 16b9a 16be8 16bbe 16b9b 16be5 16ba3 16bac 16be7 16b99 16bb8; 16be5 16bad 16b90 16be4 16bb8 16b91 16be5 16baf 16b85 16be5 16b8d 16baf 16be8 16bbe 16bb0 16be5 16bb7 16bb3 16be5 16b8d 16b88 16be6 16b9c 16baa 16be7 16b94 16bb3 16be9 16b85 16b89 16be6 16b88 16b8c 16be4 16bba 16ba5
  ANIMALS=: ;/ _4 |. TERRESTRIAL
  ELEMENTS=: ;/ _4 |. CELESTIAL
  chinese_zodiac&>YEARS

1935 乙 亥 ( yin ) 1938 戊 寅 ( yang ) 1968 戊 申 ( yang ) 1972 壬 子 ( yang ) 1976 丙 辰 ( yang ) 2017 丁 酉 ( yin ) </lang>

Java

<lang Java>public class Zodiac {

final static String animals[]={"Rat","Ox","Tiger","Rabbit","Dragon","Snake","Horse","Goat","Monkey","Rooster","Dog","Pig"}; final static String elements[]={"Wood","Fire","Earth","Metal","Water"}; final static String animalChars[]={"子","丑","寅","卯","辰","巳","午","未","申","酉","戌","亥"}; static String elementChars[][]={{"甲","丙","戊","庚","壬"},{"乙","丁","己","辛","癸"}};

static String getYY(int year) { if(year%2==0) { return "yang"; } else { return "yin"; } }

public static void main(String[] args) { int years[]={1935,1938,1968,1972,1976,1984,1985,2017}; for(int i=0;i<years.length;i++) { System.out.println(years[i]+" is the year of the "+elements[(int) Math.floor((years[i]-4)%10/2)]+" "+animals[(years[i]-4)%12]+" ("+getYY(years[i])+"). "+elementChars[years[i]%2][(int) Math.floor((years[i]-4)%10/2)]+animalChars[(years[i]-4)%12]); } } } </lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (yin). 乙亥
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (yang). 戊寅
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (yang). 戊申
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (yang). 壬子
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (yang). 丙辰
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (yang). 甲子
1985 is the year of the Wood Ox (yin). 乙丑
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (yin). 丁酉

JavaScript

ES6

Translation of: Haskell

<lang JavaScript>(() => {

   'use strict';
   // GENERIC FUNCTIONS -----------------------------------------------------
   // chars :: String -> [Char]
   const chars = s => s.split();
   // concat :: a -> [a] | [String] -> String
   const concat = xs =>
       xs.length > 0 ? (() => {
           const unit = typeof xs[0] === 'string' ?  : [];
           return unit.concat.apply(unit, xs);
       })() : [];
   // intercalate :: String -> [a] -> String
   const intercalate = (s, xs) => xs.join(s);
   // justifyLeft :: Int -> Char -> Text -> Text
   const justifyLeft = (n, cFiller, strText) =>
       n > strText.length ? (
           (strText + cFiller.repeat(n))
           .substr(0, n)
       ) : strText;
   // map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
   const map = (f, xs) => xs.map(f);
   // quot :: Int -> Int -> Int
   const quot = (n, m) => Math.floor(n / m);
   // show :: Int -> a -> Indented String
   // show :: a -> String
   const show = (...x) =>
       JSON.stringify.apply(
           null, x.length > 1 ? [x[1], null, x[0]] : x
       );
   // unlines :: [String] -> String
   const unlines = xs => xs.join('\n');
   // words :: String -> [String]
   const words = s => s.split(/\s+/);
   // zip :: [a] -> [b] -> [(a,b)]
   const zip = (xs, ys) =>
       xs.slice(0, Math.min(xs.length, ys.length))
       .map((x, i) => [x, ys[i]]);
   // zip3 :: [a] -> [b] -> [c] -> [(a,b,c)]
   const zip3 = (xs, ys, zs) =>
       xs.slice(0, Math.min(xs.length, ys.length, zs.length))
       .map((x, i) => [x, ys[i], zs[i]]);
   // zipWith :: (a -> b -> c) -> [a] -> [b] -> [c]
   const zipWith = (f, xs, ys) =>
       Array.from({
           length: Math.min(xs.length, ys.length)
       }, (_, i) => f(xs[i], ys[i]));
   // TRADITIONAL STRINGS ---------------------------------------------------
   // ats :: Array Int (String, String)
   const ats = zip(
       chars("甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸"), // 天干 tiangan – 10 heavenly stems
       words("jiă yĭ bĭng dīng wù jĭ gēng xīn rén gŭi")
   );
   // ads :: Array Int (String, String)
   const ads = zip(
       chars("子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥"), // 地支 dizhi – 12 terrestrial branches
       words("zĭ chŏu yín măo chén sì wŭ wèi shēn yŏu xū hài")
   );
   // aws :: Array Int (String, String, String)
   const aws = zip3(
       chars("木火土金水"), // 五行 wuxing – 5 elements
       words("mù huǒ tǔ jīn shuǐ"),
       words("wood fire earth metal water")
   );
   // axs :: Array Int (String, String, String)
   const axs = zip3(
       chars("鼠牛虎兔龍蛇馬羊猴鸡狗豬"), // 十二生肖 shengxiao – 12 symbolic animals
       words("shǔ niú hǔ tù lóng shé mǎ yáng hóu jī gǒu zhū"),
       words("rat ox tiger rabbit dragon snake horse goat monkey rooster dog pig")
   );
   // ays :: Array Int (String, String)
   const ays = zip(
       chars("阳阴"), // 阴阳 yinyang
       words("yáng yīn")
   );
   // TRADITIONAL CYCLES ----------------------------------------------------
   const zodiac = y => {
       const
           iYear = y - 4,
           iStem = iYear % 10,
           iBranch = iYear % 12,
           [hStem, pStem] = ats[iStem],
           [hBranch, pBranch] = ads[iBranch],
           [hElem, pElem, eElem] = aws[quot(iStem, 2)],
           [hAnimal, pAnimal, eAnimal] = axs[iBranch],
           [hYinyang, pYinyang] = ays[iYear % 2];
       return [
           [show(y), hStem + hBranch, hElem, hAnimal, hYinyang],
           [, pStem + pBranch, pElem, pAnimal, pYinyang],
           [, show((iYear % 60) + 1) + '/60', eElem, eAnimal, ]
       ];
   };
   // FORMATTING ------------------------------------------------------------
   // fieldWidths :: Int
   const fieldWidths = [
       [6, 10, 7, 8, 3],
       [6, 11, 8, 8, 4],
       [6, 11, 8, 8, 4]
   ];
   // showYear :: Int -> String
   const showYear = y =>
       unlines(map(
           row => concat(map(([n, s]) => justifyLeft(n, ' ', s), row)),
           zipWith(zip, fieldWidths, zodiac(y))
       ));
   // TEST OUTPUT -----------------------------------------------------------
   return intercalate(
       '\n\n',
       map(
           showYear, [1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, new Date()
               .getFullYear()
           ]
       )
   );

})();</lang>

Output:
1935  乙亥        木      豬       阴  
      yĭhài      mù      zhū     yīn 
      12/60      wood    pig         

1938  戊寅        土      虎       阳  
      wùyín      tǔ      hǔ      yáng
      15/60      earth   tiger       

1968  戊申        土      猴       阳  
      wùshēn     tǔ      hóu     yáng
      45/60      earth   monkey      

1972  壬子        水      鼠       阳  
      rénzĭ      shuǐ    shǔ     yáng
      49/60      water   rat         

1976  丙辰        火      龍       阳  
      bĭngchén   huǒ     lóng    yáng
      53/60      fire    dragon      

1984  甲子        木      鼠       阳  
      jiăzĭ      mù      shǔ     yáng
      1/60       wood    rat         

2017  丁酉        火      鸡       阴  
      dīngyŏu    huǒ     jī      yīn 
      34/60      fire    rooster   

Julia

Works with: Julia version 0.6
Translation of: Python

<lang julia>function chinese(year::Int)

   pinyin = Dict(
       "甲" => "jiă",
       "乙" => "yĭ",
       "丙" => "bĭng",
       "丁" => "dīng",
       "戊" => "wù",
       "己" => "jĭ",
       "庚" => "gēng",
       "辛" => "xīn",
       "壬" => "rén",
       "癸" => "gŭi",
       "子" => "zĭ",
       "丑" => "chŏu",
       "寅" => "yín",
       "卯" => "măo",
       "辰" => "chén",
       "巳" => "sì",
       "午" => "wŭ",
       "未" => "wèi",
       "申" => "shēn",
       "酉" => "yŏu",
       "戌" => "xū",
       "亥" => "hài",
   )
   elements    = ["Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"]
   animals     = ["Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake",
                  "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig"]
   celestial   = ["甲", "乙", "丙", "丁", "戊", "己", "庚", "辛", "壬", "癸"]
   terrestrial = ["子", "丑", "寅", "卯", "辰", "巳", "午", "未", "申", "酉", "戌", "亥"]
   aspects     = ["yang", "yin"]
   base = 4
   cycleyear = year - base
   stemnumber = cycleyear % 10 + 1
   stemhan    = celestial[stemnumber]
   stempinyin = pinyin[stemhan]
   elementnumber = div(stemnumber, 2) + 1
   element       = elements[elementnumber]
   branchnumber = cycleyear % 12 + 1
   branchhan    = terrestrial[branchnumber]
   branchpinyin = pinyin[branchhan]
   animal       = animals[branchnumber]
   aspectnumber = cycleyear % 2 + 1
   aspect       = aspects[aspectnumber]
   index = cycleyear % 60 + 1
   return "$year: $stemhan$branchhan ($stempinyin-$branchpinyin, $element $animal; $aspect - year $index of the cycle)"

end

curryr = Dates.year(now()) yrs = [1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, curryr] foreach(println, map(chinese, yrs))</lang>

Output:
1935: 乙亥 (yĭ-hài, Fire Pig; yin - year 12 of the cycle)
1938: 戊寅 (wù-yín, Earth Tiger; yang - year 15 of the cycle)
1968: 戊申 (wù-shēn, Earth Monkey; yang - year 45 of the cycle)
1972: 壬子 (rén-zĭ, Water Rat; yang - year 49 of the cycle)
1976: 丙辰 (bĭng-chén, Fire Dragon; yang - year 53 of the cycle)
2018: 戊戌 (wù-xū, Earth Dog; yang - year 35 of the cycle)

Kotlin

<lang scala>// version 1.1.2

class ChineseZodiac(val year: Int) {

   val stem   : Char
   val branch : Char
   val sName  : String
   val bName  : String
   val element: String
   val animal : String
   val aspect : String
   val cycle  : Int
              
   private companion object {
       val animals  = listOf("Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake",
                             "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig")
       val aspects  = listOf("Yang","Yin")
       val elements = listOf("Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water")
       val stems    = listOf('甲', '乙', '丙', '丁', '戊', '己', '庚', '辛', '壬', '癸')
       val branches = listOf('子', '丑', '寅', '卯', '辰', '巳', '午', '未', '申', '酉', '戌', '亥')
       val sNames   = listOf("jiă", "yĭ", "bĭng", "dīng", "wù", "jĭ", "gēng", "xīn", "rén", "gŭi")
       val bNames   = listOf("zĭ", "chŏu", "yín", "măo", "chén", "sì", "wŭ", "wèi", "shēn", "yŏu",  "xū", "hài")
       val fmt      = "%d    %c%c   %-9s  %-7s  %-7s   %-6s %02d/60"
   } 
   init {
       val y = year - 4
       val s = y % 10
       val b = y % 12
       stem    = stems[s]
       branch  = branches[b]
       sName   = sNames[s]
       bName   = bNames[b]
       element = elements[s / 2]
       animal  = animals[b]
       aspect  = aspects[s % 2]
       cycle   = y % 60 + 1 
   }
   override fun toString() = 
       fmt.format(year, stem, branch, sName + "-" + bName, element, animal, aspect, cycle)

}

fun main(args: Array<String>) {

   val years = intArrayOf(1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 2017)
   println("Year  Chinese  Pinyin     Element  Animal   Aspect  Cycle")
   println("----  -------  ---------  -------  -------  ------  -----") 
   for (year in years) println(ChineseZodiac(year))

}</lang>

Output:
Year  Chinese  Pinyin     Element  Animal   Aspect  Cycle
----  -------  ---------  -------  -------  ------  -----
1935    乙亥   yĭ-hài     Wood     Pig       Yin    12/60
1938    戊寅   wù-yín     Earth    Tiger     Yang   15/60
1968    戊申   wù-shēn    Earth    Monkey    Yang   45/60
1972    壬子   rén-zĭ     Water    Rat       Yang   49/60
1976    丙辰   bĭng-chén  Fire     Dragon    Yang   53/60
1984    甲子   jiă-zĭ     Wood     Rat       Yang   01/60
2017    丁酉   dīng-yŏu   Fire     Rooster   Yin    34/60

Lua

Translation of: C

<lang lua>local ANIMALS = {"Rat","Ox","Tiger","Rabbit","Dragon","Snake","Horse","Goat","Monkey","Rooster","Dog","Pig"} local ELEMENTS = {"Wood","Fire","Earth","Metal","Water"}

function element(year)

   local idx = math.floor(((year - 4) % 10) / 2)
   return ELEMENTS[idx + 1]

end

function animal(year)

   local idx = (year - 4) % 12
   return ANIMALS[idx + 1]

end

function yy(year)

   if year % 2 == 0 then
       return "yang"
   else
       return "yin"
   end

end

function zodiac(year)

   local e = element(year)
   local a = animal(year)
   local y = yy(year)
   print(year.." is the year of the "..e.." "..a.." ("..y..")")

end

zodiac(1935) zodiac(1938) zodiac(1968) zodiac(1972) zodiac(1976) zodiac(2017)</lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (yin)
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (yang)
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (yang)
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (yang)
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (yang)
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (yin)

Maple

<lang Maple> zodiac:=proc(year::integer) local year60,yinyang,animal,element; year60:= (year-3) mod 60; yinyang:=["Yin","Yang"]; animal:=["Pig","Rat","Ox","Tiger","Rabbit","Dragon","Snake","Horse","Goat","Monkey","Rooster","Dog"]; element:=["Water","Wood","Wood","Fire","Fire","Earth","Earth","Metal","Metal","Water"]; return sprintf("%a",cat(year," is the year of the ",element[(year60 mod 10)+1]," ",animal[(year60 mod 12)+1]," (",yinyang[(year60 mod 2)+1],")")); end proc: </lang>

Mathematica / Wolfram Language

<lang Mathematica>pinyin = <|"甲" -> "jiă", "乙" -> "yĭ", "丙" -> "bĭng", "丁" -> "dīng",

  "戊" -> "wù", "己" -> "jĭ", "庚" -> "gēng", "辛" -> "xīn", 
  "壬" -> "rén", "癸" -> "gŭi", "子" -> "zĭ", "丑" -> "chŏu", 
  "寅" -> "yín", "卯" -> "măo", "辰" -> "chén", "巳" -> "sì", 
  "午" -> "wŭ", "未" -> "wèi", "申" -> "shēn", "酉" -> "yŏu", 
  "戌" -> "xū", "亥" -> "hài"|>;

animals = {"Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake", "Horse",

   "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig"};

elements = {"Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"}; celestial = {"甲", "乙", "丙", "丁", "戊", "己", "庚", "辛", "壬", "癸"}; terrestrial = {"子", "丑", "寅", "卯", "辰", "巳", "午", "未", "申", "酉", "戌",

  "亥"};

aspects = {"yang", "yin"}; ClearAll[calculate] calculate[year_] := Module[{BASE, cycleyear, stemnumber, stempinyin, element,

  elementnumber, branchnumber, branchhan, branchpinyin, animal, 
  aspectnumber, aspect, stemhan},
 BASE = 4;
 cycleyear = year - BASE;
 stemnumber = Mod[cycleyear + 1, 10, 1];
 stemhan = celestialstemnumber;
 stempinyin = pinyinstemhan;
 elementnumber = Floor[stemnumber/2 + 1/2];
 element = elementselementnumber;
 branchnumber = Mod[cycleyear + 1, 12, 1];
 branchhan = terrestrialbranchnumber;
 branchpinyin = pinyinbranchhan;
 animal = animalsbranchnumber;
 aspectnumber = Mod[cycleyear + 1, 2, 1];
 aspect = aspectsaspectnumber;
 Row@{year, ": ", stemhan, branchhan, " (", stempinyin, "-", branchpinyin, ", ", element, " ", animal, "; ", aspect, ")"}
 ]

calculate[1935] calculate[1938] calculate[1941] calculate[1947] calculate[1968] calculate[1972] calculate[1976]</lang>

Output:
1935: 乙亥 (yĭ-hài, Wood Pig; yin)
1938: 戊寅 (wù-yín, Earth Tiger; yang)
1941: 辛巳 (xīn-sì, Metal Snake; yin)
1947: 丁亥 (dīng-hài, Fire Pig; yin)
1968: 戊申 (wù-shēn, Earth Monkey; yang)
1972: 壬子 (rén-zĭ, Water Rat; yang)
1976: 丙辰 (bĭng-chén, Fire Dragon; yang)

Modula-2

Translation of: C++

<lang modula2>MODULE ChineseZodiac; FROM FormatString IMPORT FormatString; FROM Terminal IMPORT WriteString,ReadChar;

TYPE Str = ARRAY[0..7] OF CHAR;

TYPE AA = ARRAY[0..11] OF Str; CONST ANIMALS = AA{"Rat","Ox","Tiger","Rabbit","Dragon","Snake","Horse","Goat","Monkey","Rooster","Dog","Pig"};

TYPE EA = ARRAY[0..4] OF Str; CONST ELEMENTS = EA{"Wood","Fire","Earth","Metal","Water"};

PROCEDURE element(year : INTEGER) : Str; VAR idx : CARDINAL; BEGIN

   idx := ((year - 4) MOD 10) / 2;
   RETURN ELEMENTS[idx];

END element;

PROCEDURE animal(year : INTEGER) : Str; VAR idx : CARDINAL; BEGIN

   idx := (year - 4) MOD 12;
   RETURN ANIMALS[idx];

END animal;

PROCEDURE yy(year : INTEGER) : Str; BEGIN

   IF year MOD 2 = 0 THEN
       RETURN "yang"
   ELSE
       RETURN "yin"
   END

END yy;

PROCEDURE print(year : INTEGER); VAR buf : ARRAY[0..63] OF CHAR; BEGIN

   FormatString("%i is the year of the %s %s (%s)\n", buf, year, element(year), animal(year), yy(year));
   WriteString(buf);

END print;

(* main *) BEGIN

   print(1935);
   print(1938);
   print(1968);
   print(1972);
   print(1976);
   print(2017);
   ReadChar

END ChineseZodiac.</lang>

Nim

Translation of: Rust

<lang nim>import strformat

const ANIMALS: array[12, string] = ["Rat", "Ox",

                                   "Tiger",  "Rabbit", 
                                   "Dragon", "Snake", 
                                   "Horse",  "Goat", 
                                   "Monkey", "Rooster", 
                                   "Dog",    "Pig"]

const ASPECTS: array[2, string] = ["Yang", "Yin"]

const ELEMENTS: array[5, string] = ["Wood", "Fire",

                                   "Earth", "Metal",
                                   "Water"]

const STEMS: array[10, string] = ["甲", "乙", "丙", "丁", "戊",

                                 "己", "庚", "辛", "壬", "癸"]

const BRANCHES: array[12, string] = ["子", "丑", "寅", "卯", "辰", "巳",

                                    "午", "未", "申", "酉", "戌", "亥"]

const S_NAMES: array[10, string] = ["jiă", "yĭ", "bĭng", "dīng", "wù",

                                   "jĭ", "gēng", "xīn", "rén", "gŭi"]

const B_NAMES: array[12, string] = ["zĭ", "chŏu", "yín", "măo", "chén", "sì",

                                   "wŭ", "wèi", "shēn", "yŏu", "xū", "hài"]

proc chineseZodiac(year: int): string =

 let y = year - 4
 let s = y mod 10
 let b = y mod 12
 let stem = STEMS[s]
 let branch = BRANCHES[b]
 let name = S_NAMES[s] & "-" & B_NAMES[b]
 let element = ELEMENTS[s div 2]
 let animal = ANIMALS[b]
 let aspect = ASPECTS[s mod 2]
 let cycle = y mod 60 + 1
 &"{year}   {stem}{branch}     {name:9}  {element:7}  {animal:7}  {aspect:6}  {cycle:02}/60"

let years = [1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 2017, 2020] echo "Year Chinese Pinyin Element Animal Aspect Cycle" echo "---- ------- ------ ------- ------ ------ -----" for year in years:

 echo &"{chineseZodiac(year)}"</lang>
Output:
Year  Chinese  Pinyin     Element  Animal   Aspect  Cycle
----  -------  ------     -------  ------   ------  -----
1935   乙亥     yĭ-hài     Wood     Pig      Yin     12/60
1938   戊寅     wù-yín     Earth    Tiger    Yang    15/60
1968   戊申     wù-shēn    Earth    Monkey   Yang    45/60
1972   壬子     rén-zĭ     Water    Rat      Yang    49/60
1976   丙辰     bĭng-chén  Fire     Dragon   Yang    53/60
1984   甲子     jiă-zĭ     Wood     Rat      Yang    01/60
2017   丁酉     dīng-yŏu   Fire     Rooster  Yin     34/60
2020   庚子     gēng-zĭ    Metal    Rat      Yang    37/60

Perl

<lang perl>sub zodiac {

 my $year = shift;
 my @animals = qw/Rat Ox Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake Horse Goat Monkey Rooster Dog Pig/;
 my @elements = qw/Wood Fire Earth Metal Water/;
 my @terrestrial_han = qw/子 丑 寅 卯 辰 巳 午 未 申 酉 戌 亥/;
 my @terrestrial_pinyin = qw/zĭ chŏu yín măo chén sì wŭ wèi shēn yŏu xū hài/;
 my @celestial_han = qw/甲 乙 丙 丁 戊 己 庚 辛 壬 癸/;
 my @celestial_pinyin = qw/jiă yĭ bĭng dīng wù jĭ gēng xīn rén gŭi/;
 my @aspect = qw/yang yin/;
 my $cycle_year = ($year-4) % 60;
 my($i2, $i10, $i12) = ($cycle_year % 2, $cycle_year % 10, $cycle_year % 12);
 ($year,
  $celestial_han[$i10], $terrestrial_han[$i12],
  $celestial_pinyin[$i10], $terrestrial_pinyin[$i12],
  $elements[$i10 >> 1], $animals[$i12], $aspect[$i2], $cycle_year+1);

}

printf("%4d: %s%s (%s-%s) %s %s; %s - year %d of the cycle\n", zodiac($_))

 for (1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 2017);</lang>
Output:
1935: 乙亥 (yĭ-hài) Wood Pig; yin - year 12 of the cycle
1938: 戊寅 (wù-yín) Earth Tiger; yang - year 15 of the cycle
1968: 戊申 (wù-shēn) Earth Monkey; yang - year 45 of the cycle
1972: 壬子 (rén-zĭ) Water Rat; yang - year 49 of the cycle
1976: 丙辰 (bĭng-chén) Fire Dragon; yang - year 53 of the cycle
2017: 丁酉 (dīng-yŏu) Fire Rooster; yin - year 34 of the cycle

Phix

<lang Phix>constant animals = {"Rat","Ox","Tiger","Rabbit","Dragon","Snake","Horse","Goat","Monkey","Rooster","Dog","Pig"},

        elements = {"Wood","Fire","Earth","Metal","Water"},
        yinyang = {"yang","yin"},
        years = {1935,1938,1968,1972,1976,2018}

for i=1 to length(years) do

   integer year = years[i],
           cycle = mod(year-4,60)
   string element = elements[floor(mod(cycle,10)/2)+1],
          animal = animals[mod(cycle,12)+1],
          yy = yinyang[mod(cycle,2)+1]        
   printf(1,"%d: %s %s; %s, year %d of the cycle.\n",
            {year,element,animal,yy,cycle+1})

end for</lang>

Output:
1935: Wood Pig; yin, year 12 of the cycle.
1938: Earth Tiger; yang, year 15 of the cycle.
1968: Earth Monkey; yang, year 45 of the cycle.
1972: Water Rat; yang, year 49 of the cycle.
1976: Fire Dragon; yang, year 53 of the cycle.
2018: Earth Dog; yang, year 35 of the cycle.

PowerShell

Translation of: Ruby

<lang PowerShell> function Get-ChineseZodiac {

   [CmdletBinding()]
   [OutputType([PSCustomObject])]
   Param
   (
       [Parameter(Mandatory=$false,
                  ValueFromPipeline=$true,
                  ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
                  Position=0)]
       [ValidateRange(1,9999)]
       [int]
       $Year = (Get-Date).Year
   )
   Begin
   {
       $pinyin = @{
           '甲' = 'jiă'
           '乙' = 'yĭ'
           '丙' = 'bĭng'
           '丁' = 'dīng'
           '戊' = 'wù'
           '己' = 'jĭ'
           '庚' = 'gēng'
           '辛' = 'xīn'
           '壬' = 'rén'
           '癸' = 'gŭi'
           '子' = 'zĭ'
           '丑' = 'chŏu'
           '寅' = 'yín'
           '卯' = 'măo'
           '辰' = 'chén'
           '巳' = 'sì'
           '午' = 'wŭ'
           '未' = 'wèi'
           '申' = 'shēn'
           '酉' = 'yŏu'
           '戌' = 'xū'
           '亥' = 'hài'
       }
       $celestial   = '甲', '乙', '丙', '丁', '戊', '己', '庚', '辛', '壬', '癸'
       $terrestrial = '子', '丑', '寅', '卯', '辰', '巳', '午', '未', '申', '酉', '戌', '亥'
       $animals     = 'Rat', 'Ox', 'Tiger', 'Rabbit', 'Dragon', 'Snake', 'Horse', 'Goat', 'Monkey', 'Rooster', 'Dog', 'Pig'
       $elements    = 'Wood', 'Fire', 'Earth', 'Metal', 'Water'
       $aspects     = 'yang', 'yin'
       $base = 4
   }
   Process
   {
       foreach ($ce_year in $Year)
       {
           $cycle_year     = $ce_year - $base
           $stem_number    = $cycle_year % 10
           $stem_han       = $celestial[$stem_number]
           $stem_pinyin    = $pinyin[$stem_han]
           $element_number = [Math]::Floor($stem_number / 2)
           $element        = $elements[$element_number]
           $branch_number  = $cycle_year % 12
           $branch_han     = $terrestrial[$branch_number]
           $branch_pinyin  = $pinyin[$branch_han]
           $animal         = $animals[$branch_number]
           $aspect_number  = $cycle_year % 2
           $aspect         = $aspects[$aspect_number]
           $index          = $cycle_year % 60 + 1
           [PSCustomObject]@{
               Year        = $Year
               Element     = $element
               Animal      = $animal
               Aspect      = $aspect
               YearOfCycle = $index
               ASCII       = "$stem_pinyin-$branch_pinyin"
               Chinese     = "$stem_han$branch_han"
           }
       }
   }

} </lang> <lang PowerShell> 1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976 | Get-ChineseZodiac | Format-Table </lang>

Output:
Year Element Animal Aspect YearOfCycle ASCII     Chinese
---- ------- ------ ------ ----------- -----     -------
1935 Wood    Pig    yin             12 yĭ-hài    乙亥     
1938 Earth   Tiger  yang            15 wù-yín    戊寅     
1968 Earth   Monkey yang            45 wù-shēn   戊申     
1972 Water   Rat    yang            49 rén-zĭ    壬子     
1976 Fire    Dragon yang            53 bĭng-chén 丙辰     

Defaults to the current year: <lang PowerShell> Get-ChineseZodiac </lang>

Output:
Year        : 2017
Element     : Fire
Animal      : Rooster
Aspect      : yin
YearOfCycle : 34
ASCII       : dīng-yŏu
Chinese     : 丁酉

Using the Year property of a [DateTime] object: <lang PowerShell> Get-Date "11/8/2016" | Get-ChineseZodiac </lang>

Output:
Year        : 2016
Element     : Fire
Animal      : Monkey
Aspect      : yang
YearOfCycle : 33
ASCII       : bĭng-shēn
Chinese     : 丙申

Emulate the Ruby script's output: <lang PowerShell> $zodiacs = 1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976 | Get-ChineseZodiac

foreach ($zodiac in $zodiacs) {

   "{0}: {1} ({2}, {3} {4}; {5} - year {6} of the cycle)" -f $zodiac.Year,
                                                             $zodiac.Chinese,
                                                             $zodiac.ASCII,
                                                             $zodiac.Element,
                                                             $zodiac.Animal,
                                                             $zodiac.Aspect,
                                                             $zodiac.YearOfCycle

} </lang>

Output:
1935: 乙亥 (yĭ-hài, Wood Pig; yin - year 12 of the cycle)
1938: 戊寅 (wù-yín, Earth Tiger; yang - year 15 of the cycle)
1968: 戊申 (wù-shēn, Earth Monkey; yang - year 45 of the cycle)
1972: 壬子 (rén-zĭ, Water Rat; yang - year 49 of the cycle)
1976: 丙辰 (bĭng-chén, Fire Dragon; yang - year 53 of the cycle)

PureBasic

<lang pureBasic>EnableExplicit

  1. BASE=4
  2. SPC=Chr(32)

Procedure.s ChineseZodiac(n.i)

 Define cycle_year.i=n-#BASE,
        stem_number.i    = cycle_year%10+1,
        element_number.i = Round(stem_number/2,#PB_Round_Nearest),
        branch_number.i  = cycle_year%12+1,
        aspect_number.i  = cycle_year%2+1,
        index.i          = cycle_year%60+1,
        celestial$       = Chr(PeekU(?Celestial_stem+SizeOf(Character)*(stem_number-1))),
        c_pinyin$        = StringField(PeekS(?Stem),stem_number,"\"),
        element$         = StringField(PeekS(?Element),element_number,"\"),
        branch_han$      = Chr(PeekU(?Terrestrial_branch+SizeOf(Character)*(branch_number-1))),
        b_pinyin$        = StringField(PeekS(?Branch),branch_number,"\"),
        animal$          = StringField(PeekS(?Zodiac_animal),branch_number,"\"),
        aspect$          = StringField(PeekS(?Aspect),aspect_number,"\"),
        YearOfCycle$     = Str(index)  
 ProcedureReturn Str(n)+#SPC+
                        LSet(element$,7,#SPC)+#SPC+
                        LSet(animal$,7,#SPC)+#SPC+
                        LSet(aspect$,6,#SPC)+#SPC+
                        RSet(YearOfCycle$,11)+#SPC+
                        LSet(c_pinyin$+"-"+b_pinyin$,9,#SPC)+#SPC+
                        celestial$+branch_han$

EndProcedure

LoadFont(0,"Consolas",12) If OpenWindow(0,#PB_Ignore,#PB_Ignore,600,400,"Chinese Zodiac",#PB_Window_ScreenCentered|#PB_Window_SystemMenu)

 EditorGadget(0, 8, 8, 600-16, 400-16) : SetGadgetFont(0,FontID(0))
 Define header$="Year Element Animal  Aspect YearOfCycle ASCII     Chinese"
 AddGadgetItem(0,-1,header$)
 AddGadgetItem(0,-1,ChineseZodiac(1935))
 AddGadgetItem(0,-1,ChineseZodiac(1938))
 AddGadgetItem(0,-1,ChineseZodiac(1968))
 AddGadgetItem(0,-1,ChineseZodiac(1972))  
 AddGadgetItem(0,-1,ChineseZodiac(1976))
 AddGadgetItem(0,-1,ChineseZodiac(1984))
 AddGadgetItem(0,-1,ChineseZodiac(Year(Date()))) 
 Repeat : Until WaitWindowEvent() = #PB_Event_CloseWindow

EndIf

DataSection

 Celestial_stem: : Data.u $7532, $4E59, $4E19, $4E01, $620A, $5DF1, $5E9A, $8F9B, $58EC, $7678  
 Terrestrial_branch: : Data.u $5B50, $4E11, $5BC5, $536F, $8FB0, $5DF3, $5348, $672A, $7533, $9149, $620C, $4EA5  
 Zodiac_animal: : Data.s "Rat\Ox\Tiger\Rabbit\Dragon\Snake\Horse\Goat\Monkey\Rooster\Dog\Pig"  
 Element: : Data.s "Wood\Fire\Earth\Metal\Water"  
 Aspect: : Data.s "yang\yin"  
 Stem: : Data.s "jiă\yĭ\bĭng\dīng\wù\jĭ\gēng\xīn\rén\gŭi"  
 Branch: : Data.s "zĭ\chŏu\yín\măo\chén\sì\wŭ\wèi\shēn\yŏu\xū\hài"  

EndDataSection</lang>

Output:
Year Element Animal  Aspect YearOfCycle ASCII     Chinese
1935 Wood    Pig     yin             12 yĭ-hài    乙亥
1938 Earth   Tiger   yang            15 wù-yín    戊寅
1968 Earth   Monkey  yang            45 wù-shēn   戊申
1972 Water   Rat     yang            49 rén-zĭ    壬子
1976 Fire    Dragon  yang            53 bĭng-chén 丙辰
1984 Wood    Rat     yang             1 jiă-zĭ    甲子
2017 Fire    Rooster yin             34 dīng-yŏu  丁酉

Python

Translation of: Ruby

<lang Python>

  1. coding: utf-8

from __future__ import print_function from datetime import datetime

pinyin = {

 '甲': 'jiă',
 '乙': 'yĭ',
 '丙': 'bĭng',
 '丁': 'dīng',
 '戊': 'wù',
 '己': 'jĭ',
 '庚': 'gēng',
 '辛': 'xīn',
 '壬': 'rén',
 '癸': 'gŭi',
 '子': 'zĭ',
 '丑': 'chŏu',
 '寅': 'yín',
 '卯': 'măo',
 '辰': 'chén',
 '巳': 'sì',
 '午': 'wŭ',
 '未': 'wèi',
 '申': 'shēn',
 '酉': 'yŏu',
 '戌': 'xū',
 '亥': 'hài'

}

animals = ['Rat', 'Ox', 'Tiger', 'Rabbit', 'Dragon', 'Snake',

          'Horse', 'Goat', 'Monkey', 'Rooster', 'Dog', 'Pig']

elements = ['Wood', 'Fire', 'Earth', 'Metal', 'Water']

celestial = ['甲', '乙', '丙', '丁', '戊', '己', '庚', '辛', '壬', '癸'] terrestrial = ['子', '丑', '寅', '卯', '辰', '巳', '午', '未', '申', '酉', '戌', '亥'] aspects = ['yang', 'yin']


def calculate(year):

   BASE = 4
   year = int(year)
   cycle_year = year - BASE
   stem_number = cycle_year % 10
   stem_han = celestial[stem_number]
   stem_pinyin = pinyin[stem_han]
   element_number = stem_number // 2
   element = elements[element_number]
   branch_number = cycle_year % 12
   branch_han = terrestrial[branch_number]
   branch_pinyin = pinyin[branch_han]
   animal = animals[branch_number]
   aspect_number = cycle_year % 2
   aspect = aspects[aspect_number]
   index = cycle_year % 60 + 1
   print("{}: {}{} ({}-{}, {} {}; {} - year {} of the cycle)"
         .format(year, stem_han, branch_han,
                 stem_pinyin, branch_pinyin, element, animal, aspect, index))


current_year = datetime.now().year years = [1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, current_year] for year in years:

   calculate(year)</lang>


Or, segmenting tokens just in time, and writing out wiki tables:

Works with: Python version 3.7

<lang python>Chinese zodiac

from functools import (reduce) from datetime import datetime


  1. TRADITIONAL STRINGS -------------------------------------
  1. zodiacNames :: Dict

def zodiacNames():

   天干 tiangan – 10 heavenly stems
      地支 dizhi – 12 terrestrial branches
      五行 wuxing – 5 elements
      生肖 shengxiao – 12 symbolic animals
      阴阳 yinyang - dark and light
   
   return dict(
       zip(
           ['tian', 'di', 'wu', 'sx', 'yy'],
           map(
               lambda tpl: list(
                   zip(* [tpl[0]] + list(
                       map(
                           lambda x: x.split(),
                           tpl[1:])
                   ))
               ),
               [
                   # 天干 tiangan – 10 heavenly stems
                   ('甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸',
                    'jiă yĭ bĭng dīng wù jĭ gēng xīn rén gŭi'),
                   # 地支 dizhi – 12 terrestrial branches
                   ('子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥',
                    'zĭ chŏu yín măo chén sì wŭ wèi shēn yŏu xū hài'),
                   # 五行 wuxing – 5 elements
                   ('木火土金水',
                    'mù huǒ tǔ jīn shuǐ',
                    'wood fire earth metal water'),
                   # 十二生肖 shengxiao – 12 symbolic animals
                   ('鼠牛虎兔龍蛇馬羊猴鸡狗豬',
                    'shǔ niú hǔ tù lóng shé mǎ yáng hóu jī gǒu zhū',
                    'rat ox tiger rabbit dragon snake horse goat ' +
                    'monkey rooster dog pig'
                    ),
                   # 阴阳 yinyang
                   ('阳阴', 'yáng yīn')
               ]
           )))


  1. zodiacYear :: Dict -> String

def zodiacYear(dct):

   A string of strings containing the
      Chinese zodiac tokens for a given year.
   
   def tokens(y):
       iYear = y - 4
       iStem = iYear % 10
       iBranch = iYear % 12
       (hStem, pStem) = dct['tian'][iStem]
       (hBranch, pBranch) = dct['di'][iBranch]
       yy = iYear % 2
       return [
           [str(y), , ],
           [
               hStem + hBranch,
               pStem + pBranch,
               str((iYear % 60) + 1) + '/60'
           ],
           list(dct['wu'][iStem // 2]),
           list(dct['sx'][iBranch]),
           list(dct['yy'][int(yy)]) + ['dark' if yy else 'light']
       ]
   return lambda year: tokens(year)


  1. TEST ----------------------------------------------------
  2. main :: IO ()

def main():

   Writing out wiki tables displaying Chinese zodiac
      details for a given list of years.
   
   print('\n'.join(
       list(map(
           zodiacTable(zodiacNames()),
           [
               1935, 1938, 1949,
               1968, 1972, 1976,
               datetime.now().year
           ]
       ))
   ))


  1. WIKI TABLES --------------------------------------------
  1. zodiacTable :: Dict -> Int -> String

def zodiacTable(tokens):

   A wiki table displaying Chinese zodiac
      details for a a given year.
   
   return lambda y: wikiTable({
       'class': 'wikitable',
       'colwidth': '70px'
   })(transpose(zodiacYear(tokens)(y)))


  1. wikiTable :: Dict -> a -> String

def wikiTable(opts):

   List of lists rendered as a wiki table string.
   def colWidth():
       return 'width:' + opts['colwidth'] + '; ' if (
           'colwidth' in opts
       ) else 
   def cellStyle():
       return opts['cell'] if 'cell' in opts else 
   return lambda rows: '{| ' + reduce(
       lambda a, k: (
           a + k + '="' + opts[k] + '" ' if k in opts else a
       ),
       ['class', 'style'],
       
   ) + '\n' + '\n|-\n'.join(
       '\n'.join(
           ('|' if (0 != i and ('cell' not in opts)) else (
               '|style="' + colWidth() + cellStyle() + '"|'
           )) + (
               str(x) or ' '
           ) for x in row
       ) for i, row in enumerate(rows)
   ) + '\n|}\n\n'


  1. GENERIC -------------------------------------------------
  1. transpose :: Matrix a -> Matrix a

def transpose(m):

   The rows and columns of the argument transposed.
      (The matrix containers and rows can be lists or tuples).
   if m:
       inner = type(m[0])
       z = zip(*m)
       return (type(m))(
           map(inner, z) if tuple != inner else z
       )
   else:
       return m


  1. MAIN ---

if __name__ == '__main__':

   main()</lang>
Output:
1935 乙亥
yĭhài zhū yīn
12/60 wood pig dark


1938 戊寅
wùyín yáng
15/60 earth tiger light


1949 己丑
jĭchŏu niú yīn
26/60 earth ox dark


1968 戊申
wùshēn hóu yáng
45/60 earth monkey light


1972 壬子
rénzĭ shuǐ shǔ yáng
49/60 water rat light


1976 丙辰
bĭngchén huǒ lóng yáng
53/60 fire dragon light


2019 己亥
jĭhài zhū yīn
36/60 earth pig dark

Racket

Translation of: Common Lisp

<lang racket>#lang racket

(require racket/date)

Any CE Year that was the first of a 60-year cycle

(define base-year 1984)

(define celestial-stems '("甲" "乙" "丙" "丁" "戊" "己" "庚" "辛" "壬" "癸"))

(define terrestrial-branches '("子" "丑" "寅" "卯" "辰" "巳" "午" "未" "申" "酉" "戌" "亥"))

(define zodiac-animals

 '("Rat" "Ox" "Tiger" "Rabbit" "Dragon" "Snake" "Horse" "Goat" "Monkey" "Rooster" "Dog" "Pig"))

(define elements '("Wood" "Fire" "Earth" "Metal" "Water"))

(define aspects '("yang" "yin"))

(define pinyin

 (map cons
      (append celestial-stems terrestrial-branches)
      (list "jiă" "yĭ" "bĭng" "dīng" "wù" "jĭ" "gēng" "xīn" "rén" "gŭi"
            "zĭ" "chŏu" "yín" "măo" "chén" "sì" "wŭ" "wèi" "shēn" "yŏu" "xū" "hài")))

(define (this-year) (date-year (current-date)))

(define (pinyin-for han) (cdr (assoc han pinyin)))

(define (han/pinyin-nth n hans) (let ((han (list-ref hans n))) (values han (pinyin-for han))))

(define (chinese-zodiac ce-year)

 (let* ((cycle-year (- ce-year base-year))
        (stem-number    (modulo cycle-year (length celestial-stems)))
        (element-number (quotient stem-number 2))
        (aspect-number  (modulo cycle-year (length aspects)))
        (branch-number  (modulo cycle-year (length terrestrial-branches)))
        (element        (list-ref elements element-number)) 
        (zodiac-animal  (list-ref zodiac-animals branch-number))
        (aspect         (list-ref aspects aspect-number)))
   (let-values (([stem-han stem-pinyin]     (han/pinyin-nth stem-number celestial-stems))                  
                ([branch-han branch-pinyin] (han/pinyin-nth branch-number terrestrial-branches)))
     (list ce-year stem-han branch-han stem-pinyin branch-pinyin element zodiac-animal aspect))))

(module+ test

 (for ((ce-year (in-list '(1935 1938 1941 1947 1968 1972 1976))))
 (apply printf "~a: ~a~a (~a-~a, ~a ~a; ~a)~%" (chinese-zodiac ce-year))))</lang>
Output:
1935: 乙亥 (yĭ-hài, Wood Pig; yin)
1938: 戊寅 (wù-yín, Earth Tiger; yang)
1941: 辛巳 (xīn-sì, Metal Snake; yin)
1947: 丁亥 (dīng-hài, Fire Pig; yin)
1968: 戊申 (wù-shēn, Earth Monkey; yang)
1972: 壬子 (rén-zĭ, Water Rat; yang)
1976: 丙辰 (bĭng-chén, Fire Dragon; yang)

Raku

(formerly Perl 6)

Works with: Rakudo version 2017.01
Translation of: Ruby

<lang perl6>sub Chinese-zodiac ( Int $year ) {

   my @heaven  = <甲 jiă 乙 yĭ 丙 bĭng 丁 dīng 戊 wù 己 jĭ 庚 gēng 辛 xīn 壬 rén 癸 gŭi>.pairup;
   my @earth   = <子 zĭ 丑 chŏu 寅 yín 卯 măo 辰 chén 巳 sì 午 wŭ 未 wèi 申 shēn 酉 yŏu 戌 xū 亥 hài>.pairup;
   my @animal  = <Rat Ox Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake Horse Goat Monkey Rooster Dog Pig>;
   my @element = <Wood Fire Earth Metal Water>;
   my @aspect  = <yang yin>;
   my $cycle_year = ($year - 4) % 60;
   my $i2         = $cycle_year % 2;
   my $i10        = $cycle_year % 10;
   my $i12        = $cycle_year % 12;
   %(
       'Han'     => @heaven[$i10].key ~ @earth[$i12].key,
       'pinyin'  => @heaven[$i10].value ~ @earth[$i12].value,
       'heaven'  => @heaven[$i10],
       'earth'   => @earth[$i12],
       'element' => @element[$i10 div 2],
       'animal'  => @animal[$i12],
       'aspect'  => @aspect[$i2],
       'cycle'   => $cycle_year + 1
   )

}

  1. TESTING

printf "%d: %s (%s, %s %s; %s - year %d in the cycle)\n",

   $_, .&Chinese-zodiac<Han pinyin element animal aspect cycle>
   for 1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, Date.today.year;</lang>
Output:
1935: 乙亥 (yĭhài, Wood Pig; yin - year 12 in the cycle)
1938: 戊寅 (wùyín, Earth Tiger; yang - year 15 in the cycle)
1968: 戊申 (wùshēn, Earth Monkey; yang - year 45 in the cycle)
1972: 壬子 (rénzĭ, Water Rat; yang - year 49 in the cycle)
1976: 丙辰 (bĭngchén, Fire Dragon; yang - year 53 in the cycle)
1984: 甲子 (jiăzĭ, Wood Rat; yang - year 1 in the cycle)
2017: 丁酉 (dīngyŏu, Fire Rooster; yin - year 34 in the cycle)

Ring

<lang ring> yinyang = ["yang", "yin"] elements = ["Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"] animals = ["Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake",

           "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig"]

years = [1801, 1861, 1984, 2020, 2186, 76543] output = ""

for year in years

   yy      = year % 2 + 1
   element = (year - 4) % 5 + 1
   animal  = (year - 4) % 12 + 1
   output  = string(year) + " is the year of the "
   output += elements[element] + " " + animals[animal] + " (" + yinyang[yy] + ")."
   ? output

next </lang>

Output:
1801 is the year of the Earth Rooster (yin).
1861 is the year of the Earth Rooster (yin).
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (yang).
2020 is the year of the Fire Rat (yang).
2186 is the year of the Earth Dog (yang).
76543 is the year of the Water Rabbit (yin).

Ruby

This is written as a command-line tool that takes a list of CE year numbers as arguments and outputs their information; if no arguments are supplied, it displays the information for the current year.

<lang ruby># encoding: utf-8 pinyin = {

 '甲' => 'jiă',
 '乙' => 'yĭ',
 '丙' => 'bĭng',
 '丁' => 'dīng',
 '戊' => 'wù',
 '己' => 'jĭ',
 '庚' => 'gēng',
 '辛' => 'xīn',
 '壬' => 'rén',
 '癸' => 'gŭi',
 '子' => 'zĭ',
 '丑' => 'chŏu',
 '寅' => 'yín',
 '卯' => 'măo',
 '辰' => 'chén',
 '巳' => 'sì',
 '午' => 'wŭ',
 '未' => 'wèi',
 '申' => 'shēn',
 '酉' => 'yŏu',
 '戌' => 'xū',
 '亥' => 'hài'

} celestial = %w(甲 乙 丙 丁 戊 己 庚 辛 壬 癸) terrestrial = %w(子 丑 寅 卯 辰 巳 午 未 申 酉 戌 亥) animals = %w(Rat Ox Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake

                  Horse Goat Monkey Rooster Dog    Pig)

elements = %w(Wood Fire Earth Metal Water) aspects = %w(yang yin)

BASE = 4

args = if !ARGV.empty?

        ARGV
      else
        [Time.new.year]
      end

args.each do |arg|

 ce_year = Integer(arg)
 print "#{ce_year}: " if ARGV.length > 1
 cycle_year     = ce_year - BASE
 stem_number    = cycle_year % 10
 stem_han       = celestial[stem_number]
 stem_pinyin    = pinyin[stem_han]
 element_number = stem_number / 2
 element        = elements[element_number]
 branch_number  = cycle_year % 12
 branch_han     = terrestrial[branch_number]
 branch_pinyin  = pinyin[branch_han]
 animal         = animals[branch_number]
 aspect_number = cycle_year % 2
 aspect        = aspects[aspect_number]
 index         = cycle_year % 60 + 1
 print stem_han, branch_han
 puts " (#{stem_pinyin}-#{branch_pinyin}, #{element} #{animal}; #{aspect} - year #{index} of the cycle)"

end</lang>

Output:

Given arguments 1935 1938 1968 1972 1976:

1935: 乙亥 (yĭ-hài, Wood Pig; yin - year 12 of the cycle)
1938: 戊寅 (wù-yín, Earth Tiger; yang - year 15 of the cycle)
1968: 戊申 (wù-shēn, Earth Monkey; yang - year 45 of the cycle)
1972: 壬子 (rén-zĭ, Water Rat; yang - year 49 of the cycle)
1976: 丙辰 (bĭng-chén, Fire Dragon; yang - year 53 of the cycle)

Given no arguments and run during the year 2017:

丁酉 (dīng-yŏu, Fire Rooster; yin - year 34 of the cycle)

Rust

Translation of: Kotlin

<lang Rust>fn chinese_zodiac(year: usize) -> String {

   static ANIMALS: [&str; 12] = [
       "Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake",
       "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig",
   ];
   static ASPECTS: [&str; 2] = ["Yang", "Yin"];
   static ELEMENTS: [&str; 5] = ["Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"];
   static STEMS: [char; 10] = [
       '甲', '乙', '丙', '丁', '戊', '己', '庚', '辛', '壬', '癸',
   ];
   static BRANCHES: [char; 12] = [
       '子', '丑', '寅', '卯', '辰', '巳', '午', '未', '申', '酉', '戌', '亥',
   ];
   static S_NAMES: [&str; 10] = [
       "jiă", "yĭ", "bĭng", "dīng", "wù", "jĭ", "gēng", "xīn", "rén", "gŭi",
   ];
   static B_NAMES: [&str; 12] = [
       "zĭ", "chŏu", "yín", "măo", "chén", "sì",
       "wŭ", "wèi", "shēn", "yŏu", "xū", "hài",
   ];
   let y = year - 4;
   let s = y % 10;
   let b = y % 12;
   let stem = STEMS[s];
   let branch = BRANCHES[b];
   let s_name = S_NAMES[s];
   let b_name = B_NAMES[b];
   let element = ELEMENTS[s / 2];
   let animal = ANIMALS[b];
   let aspect = ASPECTS[s % 2];
   let cycle = y % 60 + 1;
   format!(
       "{}    {}{}    {:9}  {:7}  {:7}  {:6}  {:02}/60",
       year,
       stem,
       branch,
       format!("{}-{}", s_name, b_name),
       element,
       animal,
       aspect,
       cycle
   )

}

fn main() {

   let years = [1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 2017];
   println!("Year  Chinese  Pinyin     Element  Animal   Aspect  Cycle");
   println!("----  -------  ---------  -------  -------  ------  -----");
   for &year in &years {
       println!("{}", chinese_zodiac(year));
   }

}</lang>

Output:
Year  Chinese  Pinyin     Element  Animal   Aspect  Cycle
----  -------  ---------  -------  -------  ------  -----
1935    乙亥    yĭ-hài     Wood     Pig      Yin     12/60
1938    戊寅    wù-yín     Earth    Tiger    Yang    15/60
1968    戊申    wù-shēn    Earth    Monkey   Yang    45/60
1972    壬子    rén-zĭ     Water    Rat      Yang    49/60
1976    丙辰    bĭng-chén  Fire     Dragon   Yang    53/60
1984    甲子    jiă-zĭ     Wood     Rat      Yang    01/60
2017    丁酉    dīng-yŏu   Fire     Rooster  Yin     34/60

Scala

<lang Scala>object Zodiac extends App {

 val years = Seq(1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1985, 2017, 2018)
 private def animals =
   Seq("Rat",
     "Ox",
     "Tiger",
     "Rabbit",
     "Dragon",
     "Snake",
     "Horse",
     "Goat",
     "Monkey",
     "Rooster",
     "Dog",
     "Pig")
 private def animalChars =
   Seq("子", "丑", "寅", "卯", "辰", "巳", "午", "未", "申", "酉", "戌", "亥")
 private def elements = Seq("Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water")
 private def elementChars =
   Seq(Array("甲", "丙", "戊", "庚", "壬"), Array("乙", "丁", "己", "辛", "癸"))
 private def getYY(year: Int) = if (year % 2 == 0) "yang" else "yin"
 for (year <- years) {
   println(year
     + " is the year of the " + elements(math.floor((year - 4) % 10 / 2).toInt) + " " 
     + animals((year - 4) % 12)
     + " (" + getYY(year) + "). "
     + elementChars(year % 2)(math.floor((year - 4) % 10 / 2).toInt)
     + animalChars((year - 4) % 12))
 }

}</lang>

Output:

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Seed7

The standard output file of Seed7 accepts only Latin-1 (byte) output. Therefore the output with the chinese characters is written to STD_CONSOLE. The library console.s7i defines STD_CONSOLE.

<lang seed7>$ include "seed7_05.s7i";

 include "console.s7i";

const array string: animals is [0] ("Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake", "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig"); const array string: elements is [0] ("Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"); const array string: animalChars is [0] ("子", "丑", "寅", "卯", "辰", "巳", "午", "未", "申", "酉", "戌", "亥"); const array array string: elementChars is [0] ([0] ("甲", "丙", "戊", "庚", "壬"), [0] ("乙", "丁", "己", "辛", "癸"));

const proc: main is func

 local
   var integer: year is 0;
   var integer: eIdx is 0;
   var integer: aIdx is 0;
 begin
   OUT := STD_CONSOLE;
   for year range {1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1985, 2017} do
     eIdx := (year - 4) rem 10 div 2;
     aIdx := (year - 4) rem 12;
     writeln(year <& " is the year of the " <& elements[eIdx] <& " " <& animals[aIdx] <& " (" <&
             ([0] ("yang", "yin"))[year rem 2] <& "). " <& elementChars[year rem 2][eIdx] <& animalChars[aIdx]);
   end for;
 end func;</lang>
Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (yin). 乙亥
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (yang). 戊寅
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (yang). 戊申
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (yang). 壬子
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (yang). 丙辰
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (yang). 甲子
1985 is the year of the Wood Ox (yin). 乙丑
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (yin). 丁酉

Sidef

Translation of: Perl

<lang ruby>func zodiac(year) {

 var animals = %w(Rat Ox Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake Horse Goat Monkey Rooster Dog Pig)
 var elements = %w(Wood Fire Earth Metal Water)
 var terrestrial_han = %w(子 丑 寅 卯 辰 巳 午 未 申 酉 戌 亥)
 var terrestrial_pinyin = %w(zĭ chŏu yín măo chén sì wŭ wèi shēn yŏu xū hài)
 var celestial_han = %w(甲 乙 丙 丁 戊 己 庚 辛 壬 癸)
 var celestial_pinyin = %w(jiă yĭ bĭng dīng wù jĭ gēng xīn rén gŭi)
 var aspect = %w(yang yin)
 var cycle_year = ((year-4) % 60)
 var (i2, i10, i12) = (cycle_year%2, cycle_year%10, cycle_year%12)
 (year,
  celestial_han[i10],    terrestrial_han[i12],
  celestial_pinyin[i10], terrestrial_pinyin[i12],
  elements[i10 >> 1], animals[i12], aspect[i2], cycle_year+1)

}

[1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 2017].each { |year|

   printf("%4d: %s%s (%s-%s) %s %s; %s - year %d of the cycle\n", zodiac(year))

}</lang>

Output:
1935: 乙亥 (yĭ-hài) Wood Pig; yin - year 12 of the cycle
1938: 戊寅 (wù-yín) Earth Tiger; yang - year 15 of the cycle
1968: 戊申 (wù-shēn) Earth Monkey; yang - year 45 of the cycle
1972: 壬子 (rén-zĭ) Water Rat; yang - year 49 of the cycle
1976: 丙辰 (bĭng-chén) Fire Dragon; yang - year 53 of the cycle
2017: 丁酉 (dīng-yŏu) Fire Rooster; yin - year 34 of the cycle

tbas

<lang qbasic> DATA "甲","乙","丙","丁","戊","己","庚","辛","壬","癸" DECLARE celestial$(10) MAT READ celestial$

DATA "子","丑","寅","卯","辰","巳","午","未","申","酉","戌","亥" DECLARE terrestrial$(12) MAT READ terrestrial$

DATA "Rat","Ox","Tiger","Rabbit","Dragon","Snake","Horse","Goat","Monkey","Rooster","Dog","Pig" DECLARE animals$(12) MAT READ animals$

       DATA "Wood","Fire","Earth","Metal","Water"

DECLARE elements$(5) MAT READ elements$

DATA "yang","yin" DECLARE aspects$(2) MAT READ aspects$

DATA "jiă","yĭ","bĭng","dīng","wù","jĭ","gēng","xīn","rén","gŭi" DATA "zĭ","chŏu","yín","măo","chén","sì","wŭ","wèi","shēn","yŏu","xū","hài" DECLARE celestialpinyin$(UBOUND(celestial$(),1)) DECLARE terrestrialpinyin$(UBOUND(terrestrial$(),1)) MAT READ celestialpinyin$ MAT READ terrestrialpinyin$

DATA 1935,1938,1931,1961,1963,1991,1993,1996,2001 DECLARE years(9) MAT READ years

DECLARE _base = 4 DECLARE _year DECLARE cycleyear DECLARE stemnumber DECLARE stemhan$ DECLARE stempinyin$ DECLARE elementnumber DECLARE element$ DECLARE branchnumber DECLARE branchhan$ DECLARE branchpinyin$ DECLARE animal$ DECLARE aspectnumber DECLARE aspect$ DECLARE index

DECLARE i DECLARE top = ubound(years(),1) FOR i = 1 TO top _year = years(i) cycleyear = _year - _base stemnumber = MOD(cycleyear, 10) stemhan$ = celestial$(stemnumber + 1) stempinyin$ = celestialpinyin$(stemnumber + 1) elementnumber = div(stemnumber, 2) + 1 element$ = elements$(elementnumber) branchnumber = MOD(cycleyear, 12) branchhan$ = terrestrial$(branchnumber + 1) branchpinyin$ = terrestrialpinyin$(branchnumber + 1) animal$ = animals$(branchnumber + 1) aspectnumber = MOD(cycleyear, 2) aspect$ = aspects$(aspectnumber + 1) index = MOD(cycleyear, 60) + 1 PRINT _year; PRINT TAB(5);stemhan$+branchhan$; PRINT TAB(12);stempinyin$;"-";branchpinyin$; PRINT TAB(25);element$;" ";animal$;" ("+aspect$+")"; PRINT TAB(50);"year";index;"of the cycle" NEXT </lang>

$ tbas chinZod.bas
 1935 乙亥 yĭ-hài     Wood Pig (yin)           year 12 of the cycle
 1938 戊寅 wù-yín     Earth Tiger (yang)       year 15 of the cycle
 1931 辛未 xīn-wèi    Metal Goat (yin)         year 8 of the cycle
 1961 辛丑 xīn-chŏu   Metal Ox (yin)           year 38 of the cycle
 1963 癸卯 gŭi-măo    Water Rabbit (yin)       year 40 of the cycle
 1991 辛未 xīn-wèi    Metal Goat (yin)         year 8 of the cycle
 1993 癸酉 gŭi-yŏu    Water Rooster (yin)      year 10 of the cycle
 1996 丙子 bĭng-zĭ    Fire Rat (yang)          year 13 of the cycle
 2001 辛巳 xīn-sì     Metal Snake (yin)        year 18 of the cycle

Tcl

<lang Tcl> proc cn_zodiac year {

  set year0 [expr $year-4]
  set animals {Rat Ox Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake Horse Goat Monkey Rooster Dog Pig}
  set elements {Wood Fire Earth Metal Water}
  set stems {jia3 yi3 bing3 ding1 wu4 ji3 geng1 xin1 ren2 gui3}
  set gan {\u7532 \u4E59 \u4E19 \u4E01 \u620A \u5DF1 \u5E9A \u8F9B \u58EC \u7678}
  set branches {zi3 chou3 yin2 mao3 chen2 si4 wu3 wei4 shen1 you3 xu1 hai4}
  set zhi {\u5B50 \u4E11 \u5BC5 \u536F \u8FB0 \u5DF3 \u5348 \u672A \u7533 \u9149 \u620C \u4EA5}
  set m10 [expr $year0%10]
  set m12 [expr $year0%12]
  set res [lindex $gan $m10][lindex $zhi $m12]
  lappend res [lindex $stems $m10]-[lindex $branches $m12]
  lappend res [lindex $elements [expr $m10/2]]
  lappend res [lindex $animals $m12] ([expr {$year0%2 ? "yin" : "yang"}])
  lappend res year [expr $year0%60+1]
  return $res

}

</lang>

% cn_zodiac 1984
甲子 jia3-zi3 Wood Rat (yang) year 1
% cn_zodiac 2017
丁酉 ding1-you3 Fire Rooster (yin) year 34

UNIX Shell

Works with: Bash version 4+
Works with: Korn Shell version 93+

The required versions introduced support for associative arrays.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
declare -A pinyin=(
  [甲]='jiă'
  [乙]='yĭ'
  [丙]='bĭng'
  [丁]='dīng'
  [戊]='wù'
  [己]='jĭ'
  [庚]='gēng'
  [辛]='xīn'
  [壬]='rén'
  [癸]='gŭi'

  [子]='zĭ'
  [丑]='chŏu'
  [寅]='yín'
  [卯]='măo'
  [辰]='chén'
  [巳]='sì'
  [午]='wŭ'
  [未]='wèi'
  [申]='shén'
  [酉]='yŏu'
  [戌]='xū'
  [亥]='hài'
)

celestial=(甲 乙 丙 丁 戊 己 庚 辛 壬 癸)
terrestrial=(子 丑 寅 卯 辰 巳 午 未 申 酉 戌 亥)
animals=(Rat   Ox   Tiger  Rabbit  Dragon Snake
         Horse Goat Monkey Rooster Dog    Pig)
elements=(Wood Fire Earth Metal Water)
aspects=(yang yin)

BaseYear=4

function main {
  if (( !$# )); then
    set -- $(date +%Y)
  fi
  local year
  for year; do
    if (( $# > 1 )); then
      printf '%s:' "$year"
    fi
    local -i cycle_year=year-BaseYear
    local -i stem_number=$cycle_year%${#celestial[@]}
    local stem_han=${celestial[$stem_number]}
    local stem_pinyin=${pinyin[$stem_han]}

    local -i element_number=stem_number/2
    local element=${elements[$element_number]}

    local -i branch_number=$cycle_year%${#terrestrial[@]}
    local branch_han=${terrestrial[$branch_number]}
    local branch_pinyin=${pinyin[$branch_han]}
    local animal=${animals[$branch_number]}

    local -i aspect_number=$cycle_year%${#aspects[@]}
    local aspect=${aspects[$aspect_number]}

    printf '%s%s'  $stem_han $branch_han
    printf '(%s-%s, %s %s; %s)\n' $stem_pinyin $branch_pinyin $element $animal $aspect
  done
}

main "$@"
Works with: Z Shell version 5.5+

Version required for associative array initialization syntax. Main difference from bash is that we number everything starting at 1 instead of 0.

#!/usr/bin/env zsh
declare -A pinyin=(
  [甲]='jiă'
  [乙]='yĭ'
  [丙]='bĭng'
  [丁]='dīng'
  [戊]='wù'
  [己]='jĭ'
  [庚]='gēng'
  [辛]='xīn'
  [壬]='rén'
  [癸]='gŭi'

  [子]='zĭ'
  [丑]='chŏu'
  [寅]='yín'
  [卯]='măo'
  [辰]='chén'
  [巳]='sì'
  [午]='wŭ'
  [未]='wèi'
  [申]='shén'
  [酉]='yŏu'
  [戌]='xū'
  [亥]='hài'
)

celestial=(甲 乙 丙 丁 戊 己 庚 辛 壬 癸)
terrestrial=(子 丑 寅 卯 辰 巳 午 未 申 酉 戌 亥)
animals=(Rat   Ox   Tiger  Rabbit  Dragon Snake
         Horse Goat Monkey Rooster Dog    Pig)
elements=(Wood Fire Earth Metal Water)
aspects=(yang yin)

BaseYear=4

main() {
  if (( !$# )); then
    set -- $(date +%Y)
  fi
  local year
  for year; do
    if (( $# > 1 )); then
      printf '%s:' "$year"
    fi
    local -i cycle_year=year-BaseYear+1
    local -i stem_number=$(amod $cycle_year ${#celestial[@]})
    local stem_han=$celestial[$stem_number]
    local stem_pinyin=$pinyin[$stem_han]

    local -i element_number
    (( element_number = (stem_number-1)/2+1 ))
    local element=$elements[$element_number]

    local -i branch_number=$(amod $cycle_year ${#terrestrial[@]})
    local branch_han=$terrestrial[$branch_number]
    local branch_pinyin=$pinyin[$branch_han]
    local animal=$animals[$branch_number]

    local -i aspect_number=$(amod $cycle_year ${#aspects[@]})
    local aspect=$aspects[$aspect_number]

    printf '%s%s'  $stem_han $branch_han
    printf '(%s-%s, %s %s; %s)\n' $stem_pinyin $branch_pinyin $element $animal $aspect
  done
}

amod() {
  local -i m=$1 n=$2
  printf '%d\n' $(( (m + n - 1) % n + 1 ))
}

main "$@"
Output:

Output is the same for both versions:

$ cz 1935 1938 1968 1972 1976:
1935:乙亥(yĭ-hài, Wood Pig; yin)
1938:戊寅(wù-yín, Earth Tiger; yang)
1968:戊申(wù-shén, Earth Monkey; yang)
1972:壬子(rén-zĭ, Water Rat; yang)
1976:丙辰(bĭng-chén, Fire Dragon; yang)

UTFool

<lang UTFool> ··· http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac ··· ■ ChineseZodiac

 § static
   tiangan⦂ String[][]: ¤ · 10 celestial stems
    ¤ "甲", "乙", "丙", "丁", "戊", "己", "庚", "辛", "壬", "癸"
    ¤ "jiă", "yĭ", "bĭng", "dīng", "wù", "jĭ", "gēng", "xīn", "rén", "gŭi"
    
   dizhi⦂ String[][]: ¤ · 12 terrestrial branches
    ¤ "子", "丑", "寅", "卯", "辰", "巳", "午", "未", "申", "酉", "戌", "亥"
    ¤ "zĭ", "chŏu", "yín", "măo", "chén", "sì", "wŭ", "wèi", "shēn", "yŏu", "xū", "hài"
    
   wuxing⦂ String[][]: ¤ · 5 traditional elements
    ¤ "木", "火", "土", "金", "水"
    ¤ "mù", "huǒ", "tǔ", "jīn", "shuǐ"
    ¤ "wood", "fire", "earth", "metal", "water"
    
   shengxiao⦂ String[][]: ¤ · 12 animal deities
    ¤ "鼠", "牛", "虎", "兔", "龍", "蛇", "馬", "羊", "猴", "鸡", "狗", "豬"
    ¤ "shǔ", "niú", "hǔ", "tù", "lóng", "shé", "mǎ", "yáng", "hóu", "jī", "gǒu", "zhū"
    ¤ "rat", "ox", "tiger", "rabbit", "dragon", "snake", "horse", "goat", "monkey", "rooster", "dog", "pig"
    
   yinyang⦂ String[][]: ¤ · 2 fundamental principles
    ¤ "阳", "阴"
    ¤ "yáng", "yīn"
   ▶ main
   • args⦂ String[]
     for each year ∈ [1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2017]⦂ int
         cycle⦂  int: year - 4
         stem⦂   int: cycle \ 10
         branch⦂ int: cycle \ 12
         System.out.printf "%4s  %-8s %-6s %-6s %s\n", year, tiangan[0][stem] ⊕ dizhi[0][branch],
           wuxing[0][stem / 2], shengxiao[0][branch], yinyang[0][year \ 2]
         System.out.printf "      %-9s %-7s %-7s %s\n", tiangan[1][stem] ⊕ dizhi[1][branch],
           wuxing[1][stem / 2], shengxiao[1][branch], yinyang[1][year \ 2]
         System.out.printf "      %-2s/60     %-7s %s\n\n", cycle \ 60 + 1,
           wuxing[2][stem / 2], shengxiao[2][branch]

</lang>

VBScript

To run in console mode with cscript. <lang vb>' Chinese zodiac - VBS

Animals = array( "Rat","Ox","Tiger","Rabbit","Dragon","Snake","Horse","Goat","Monkey","Rooster","Dog","Pig" ) Elements = array( "Wood","Fire","Earth","Metal","Water" ) YinYang = array( "Yang","Yin" ) Years = array( 1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 2017 )

for i = LBound(Years) to UBound(Years) xYear = Years(i) yElement = Elements(((xYear - 4) mod 10) \ 2) yAnimal = Animals( (xYear - 4) mod 12 ) yYinYang = YinYang( xYear mod 2 ) nn = ((xYear - 4) mod 60) + 1 msgbox xYear & " is the year of the " & yElement & " " & yAnimal & " (" & yYinYang & ").",, _ xYear & " : " & nn & "/60" next </lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (Yin).
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (Yang).
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (Yang).
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (Yang).
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (Yang).
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (Yang).
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (Yin).

Visual Basic .NET

Translation of: C#

<lang vbnet>Module Module1

   ReadOnly ANIMALS As String() = {"Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake", "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig"}
   ReadOnly ELEMENTS As String() = {"Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"}
   ReadOnly ANIMAL_CHARS As String() = {"子", "丑", "寅", "卯", "辰", "巳", "午", "未", "申", "酉", "戌", "亥"}
   ReadOnly ELEMENT_CHARS As String(,) = {{"甲", "丙", "戊", "庚", "壬"}, {"乙", "丁", "己", "辛", "癸"}}
   Function GetYY(year As Integer) As String
       If year Mod 2 = 0 Then
           Return "yang"
       End If
       Return "yin"
   End Function
   Sub Main()
       Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
       Dim years = {1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1985, 2017}
       For i = 0 To years.Length - 1
           Dim t0 = years(i)
           Dim t1 = t0 - 4.0
           Dim t2 = t1 Mod 10
           Dim t3 = t2 / 2
           Dim t4 = Math.Floor(t3)
           Dim ei As Integer = Math.Floor(((years(i) - 4.0) Mod 10) / 2)
           Dim ai = (years(i) - 4) Mod 12
           Console.WriteLine("{0} is the year of the {1} {2} ({3}). {4}{5}", years(i), ELEMENTS(ei), ANIMALS(ai), GetYY(years(i)), ELEMENT_CHARS(years(i) Mod 2, ei), ANIMAL_CHARS((years(i) - 4) Mod 12))
       Next
   End Sub

End Module</lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (yin). 乙亥
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (yang). 戊寅
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (yang). 戊申
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (yang). 壬子
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (yang). 丙辰
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (yang). 甲子
1985 is the year of the Wood Ox (yin). 乙丑
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (yin). 丁酉

Wren

Translation of: Kotlin
Library: Wren-fmt

<lang ecmascript>import "/fmt" for Fmt

class ChineseZodiac {

   static init() {
       __animals  = ["Rat", "Ox", "Tiger", "Rabbit", "Dragon", "Snake",
           "Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig"]
       __aspects  = ["Yang","Yin"]
       __elements = ["Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"]
       __stems    = ["甲", "乙", "丙", "丁", "戊", "己", "庚", "辛", "壬", "癸"]
       __branches = ["子", "丑", "寅", "卯", "辰", "巳", "午", "未", "申", "酉", "戌", "亥"]
       __sNames   = ["jiă", "yĭ", "bĭng", "dīng", "wù", "jĭ", "gēng", "xīn", "rén", "gŭi"]
       __bNames   = ["zĭ", "chŏu", "yín", "măo", "chén", "sì", "wŭ", "wèi", "shēn", "yŏu",  "xū", "hài"]
   }
   construct new(year) {
       var y = year - 4
       var s = y % 10
       var b = y % 12
       _year    = year
       _stem    = __stems[s]
       _branch  = __branches[b]
       _sName   = __sNames[s]
       _bName   = __bNames[b]
       _element = __elements[(s/2).floor]
       _animal  = __animals[b]
       _aspect  = __aspects[s % 2]
       _cycle   = y % 60 + 1
   }
   toString {
       var name = Fmt.s(-9, _sName + "-" + _bName)
       var elem = Fmt.s(-7, _element)
       var anim = Fmt.s(-7, _animal)
       var aspt = Fmt.s(-6, _aspect)
       var cycl = Fmt.dz(2, _cycle) + "/60"
       return "%(_year)    %(_stem)%(_branch)   %(name)  %(elem)  %(anim)   %(aspt) %(cycl)"
   }

}

var years = [1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 2017, 2020] System.print("Year Chinese Pinyin Element Animal Aspect Cycle") System.print("---- ------- --------- ------- ------- ------ -----") ChineseZodiac.init() for (year in years) System.print(ChineseZodiac.new(year))</lang>

Output:
Year  Chinese  Pinyin     Element  Animal   Aspect  Cycle
----  -------  ---------  -------  -------  ------  -----
1935    乙亥   yĭ-hài     Wood     Pig       Yin    12/60
1938    戊寅   wù-yín     Earth    Tiger     Yang   15/60
1968    戊申   wù-shēn    Earth    Monkey    Yang   45/60
1972    壬子   rén-zĭ     Water    Rat       Yang   49/60
1976    丙辰   bĭng-chén  Fire     Dragon    Yang   53/60
1984    甲子   jiă-zĭ     Wood     Rat       Yang   01/60
2017    丁酉   dīng-yŏu   Fire     Rooster   Yin    34/60
2020    庚子   gēng-zĭ    Metal    Rat       Yang   37/60


Yabasic

<lang Yabasic> dim Animals$(12) : for a = 0 to 11 : read Animals$(a) : next a dim Elements$(5) : for a = 0 to 4  : read Elements$(a): next a dim YinYang$(2)  : for a = 0 to 1  : read YinYang$(a) : next a dim Years(7)  : for a = 0 to 6  : read Years(a)  : next a

for i = 0 to arraysize(Years(),1)-1 xYear = Years(i) yElement$ = Elements$((Mod((xYear - 4), 10)) / 2) yAnimal$ = Animals$( Mod((xYear - 4), 12)) yYinYang$ = YinYang$( Mod(xYear, 2) ) nn = ( Mod((xYear - 4), 60)) + 1 print xYear, " is the year of the ", yElement$, " ", yAnimal$, " (", yYinYang$, ")." next i print end

data "Rat","Ox","Tiger","Rabbit","Dragon","Snake","Horse","Goat","Monkey","Rooster","Dog","Pig" data "Wood","Fire","Earth","Metal","Water" data "Yang","Yin" data 1935, 1938, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 2017 </lang>

Output:
1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (Yin).
1938 is the year of the Earth Tiger (Yang).
1968 is the year of the Earth Monkey (Yang).
1972 is the year of the Water Rat (Yang).
1976 is the year of the Fire Dragon (Yang).
1984 is the year of the Wood Rat (Yang).
2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (Yin).


zkl

Translation of: Ruby

<lang zkl>fcn ceToChineseZodiac(ce_year){ // --> list of strings

  # encoding: utf-8
  var [const] pinyin=SD(  // create some static variables, SD is small fixed dictionary
    "甲","jiă",  "乙","yĭ",  "丙","bĭng", "丁","dīng", "戊","wù", "己","jĭ",
    "庚","gēng", "辛","xīn", "壬","rén",  "癸","gŭi",
    "子","zĭ",  "丑","chŏu", "寅","yín", "卯","măo",  "辰","chén", "巳","sì",
    "午","wŭ",  "未","wèi",  "申","shén","酉","yŏu",  "戌","xū",   "亥","hài"
  ),
  celestial  =T("甲", "乙", "丙", "丁", "戊", "己", "庚", "辛", "壬", "癸"),
  terrestrial=T("子", "丑", "寅", "卯", "辰", "巳", "午", "未", "申", "酉", "戌", "亥"),
  animals    =T("Rat",   "Ox",   "Tiger",  "Rabbit",  "Dragon", "Snake",

"Horse", "Goat", "Monkey", "Rooster", "Dog", "Pig"),

  elements   =T("Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Metal", "Water"),
  aspects    =T("yang","yin"),
  ;
  const BASE=4;

  cycle_year:=ce_year - BASE;
  cycle_year,aspect    := ce_year - BASE,         aspects[cycle_year%2];
  stem_number,element  := cycle_year%10,          elements[stem_number/2];
  stem_han,stem_pinyin := celestial[stem_number], pinyin[stem_han];
  branch_number,animal     := cycle_year%12,      animals[branch_number];
  branch_han,branch_pinyin := terrestrial[branch_number], pinyin[branch_han];
  return(stem_han,branch_han,

stem_pinyin,branch_pinyin, element,animal,aspect) }</lang> <lang zkl>foreach ce_year in (T(1935,1938,1968,1972,1976,Time.Clock.UTC[0])){

  println("%d: %s%s (%s-%s, %s %s; %s)"
          .fmt(ce_year,ceToChineseZodiac(ce_year).xplode()));

}</lang>

Output:
1935: 乙亥 (yĭ-hài, Wood Pig; yin)
1938: 戊寅 (wù-yín, Earth Tiger; yang)
1968: 戊申 (wù-shén, Earth Monkey; yang)
1972: 壬子 (rén-zĭ, Water Rat; yang)
1976: 丙辰 (bĭng-chén, Fire Dragon; yang)
2017: 丁酉 (dīng-yŏu, Fire Rooster; yin)