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GET /v1/chinese

Chinese zodiac from a year or date

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/zodiac-api/v1/chinese" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/zodiac-api/v1/chinese", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/zodiac-api/v1/chinese");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/zodiac-api/v1/chinese",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "Uses the Gregorian year; births in January/early February may fall under the previous year's animal due to the lunar new year.",
        "sign": "Horse",
        "year": 1990,
        "traits": [
            "energetic",
            "independent",
            "warm"
        ],
        "element": "Metal",
        "yin_yang": "Yang"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T00:04:25.421Z",
        "request_id": "8ddaec96-5cc7-4273-bf24-a8ebd9191a00"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Chinese sign retrieved",
    "success": true
}