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Originally Posted by activeStick
One of my Vietnamese friends told me before that she heard that it's the year of the Cat instead of Rabbit because of some language mix up a long time ago. Is this what others have heard? Girly (I think you've mentioned before you're Vietnamese)?
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Yes, the story goes that the mandarin word for rabbit and the Vietnamese word for cat are almost the same so yeah, ancient Vietnamese misread the Chinese zodiac when they adopted it.
I'm half, Malaysian father/Vietnamese mother.