The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Tiger and the Dog sit four steps apart and belong to the same trine (三合), the fire trio they share with the Horse. Two members of a trine are read as a half harmony: they pull toward the same element even without the third.
The Tiger is a wood sign and the Dog an earth sign. In the controlling cycle wood holds earth, so the Tiger is read as the one who sets limits and the Dog as the one who pushes against them.
The Tiger rules the spring month that starts around Feb 4 and the hours from 3 am to 5 am; the Dog rules the autumn month that starts around Oct 8 and the hours from 7 pm to 9 pm.
For comparison, the Tiger's harmony partner is the Pig and its trine partners are the Horse and the Dog; the Dog's harmony partner is the Rabbit and its trine partners are the Tiger and the Horse.
Reading
In love, friendship and work
Traditionally the Tiger is brave, competitive and warm-hearted, and the Dog is loyal, honest and protective. The Tiger tends to bring courage and look for respect; the Dog tends to bring faithfulness and look for fairness.
In love, trine partners tend to want the same things from life, so they tend to forgive each other's different styles more easily.
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?
Tiger years: 1950 (Metal Tiger), 1962 (Water Tiger), 1974 (Wood Tiger), 1986 (Fire Tiger), 1998 (Earth Tiger), 2010 (Metal Tiger), 2022 (Water Tiger).
Dog years: 1958 (Earth Dog), 1970 (Metal Dog), 1982 (Water Dog), 1994 (Wood Dog), 2006 (Fire Dog), 2018 (Earth Dog), 2030 (Metal Dog).
10 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Tiger 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 Tiger (寅) and Dog (戌), the compatibility calculator scores that check as half a plus, 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.