The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Rabbit and the Monkey are five steps apart on the circle of twelve, one short of facing each other. They are not a harmony, a trine, a clash or a harm pair, so the classical tables call the pair neutral: nothing special pulls them together or apart.
The Monkey is a metal sign and the Rabbit a wood sign. In the controlling cycle metal cuts wood, so the Monkey is read as the one who sets limits and the Rabbit as the one who pushes against them.
The Rabbit rules the spring month that starts around Mar 6 and the hours from 5 am to 7 am; the Monkey rules the autumn month that starts around Aug 8 and the hours from 3 pm to 5 pm.
For comparison, the Rabbit's harmony partner is the Dog and its trine partners are the Pig and the Goat; the Monkey's harmony partner is the Snake and its trine partners are the Rat and the Dragon.
Reading
In love, friendship and work
Traditionally the Rabbit is gentle, tactful and elegant, and the Monkey is clever, playful and inventive. The Rabbit tends to bring kindness and calm and look for a peaceful home; the Monkey tends to bring fresh solutions and look for variety.
In love, 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 keep each other in check, which can sharpen the work as long as neither tries to run the other.
Years
Which years are these animals?
Rabbit years: 1951 (Metal Rabbit), 1963 (Water Rabbit), 1975 (Wood Rabbit), 1987 (Fire Rabbit), 1999 (Earth Rabbit), 2011 (Metal Rabbit), 2023 (Water Rabbit).
Monkey years: 1956 (Fire Monkey), 1968 (Earth Monkey), 1980 (Metal Monkey), 1992 (Water Monkey), 2004 (Wood Monkey), 2016 (Fire Monkey), 2028 (Earth Monkey).
13 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Rabbit years.
23 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Monkey 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 Rabbit (卯) and Monkey (申), 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.