The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Ox and the Dog are a quarter turn apart on the circle of twelve. They are not a harmony, a trine, a clash or a harm pair, so outside the punishment pattern below, the classical tables treat the pair as neutral.
They are also two of the three branches of a punishment trio (三刑), Ox 丑, Dog 戌 and Goat 未, an old pattern read as friction that comes from inside a group rather than from outside it.
Both are earth signs, the Ox yin and the Dog yang, so in five-element terms they speak the same language.
The Ox rules the winter month that starts around Jan 6 and the hours from 1 am to 3 am; the Dog rules the autumn month that starts around Oct 8 and the hours from 7 pm to 9 pm.
For comparison, the Ox's harmony partner is the Rat and its trine partners are the Snake and the Rooster; the Dog's harmony partner is the Rabbit and its trine partners are the Tiger and the Horse.
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In love, friendship and work
Traditionally the Ox is patient, steady and hard-working, and the Dog is loyal, honest and protective. The Ox tends to bring reliability and look for loyalty; the Dog tends to bring faithfulness and look for fairness.
In love, apart from the punishment pattern, the zodiac neither helps nor blocks this pair, so the rest of each chart, and the two people, decide how it goes.
As friends or co-workers they tend to move at the same pace and understand each other quickly.
Years
Which years are these animals?
Ox years: 1949 (Earth Ox), 1961 (Metal Ox), 1973 (Water Ox), 1985 (Wood Ox), 1997 (Fire Ox), 2009 (Earth Ox), 2021 (Metal Ox).
Dog years: 1958 (Earth Dog), 1970 (Metal Dog), 1982 (Water Dog), 1994 (Wood Dog), 2006 (Fire Dog), 2018 (Earth Dog), 2030 (Metal Dog).
12 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Ox years.
11 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Dog years.
Your pair
Check two birth years
A zodiac year starts in late January or February, not on January 1: Chinese New Year calendars switch at Lunar New Year, and saju switches at Lichun, around February 4. If you were born in January or early February, you may belong to the year before.
Beyond the birth year
On Bias Match the animal that counts most is not the birth year but the day branch, the animal in each person's day pillar. If two people's day branches are Ox (丑) and Dog (戌), the compatibility calculator scores that check as zero, neither plus nor minus, next to five other checks.
The text is fixed sentence templates filled in with the classical relation tables built into the Bias Match engine; no AI model generates or rewrites it. For entertainment only: the zodiac describes old patterns, not what will happen between two people.