Today the Chinese Year of the Horse gives way to something more woolly, but is it a sheep/ram or a goat? There is ambiguity!
“This Chinese lunar year, which begins today, the easily identifiablema (馬) gives way to the the vague yang (羊). The first clearly refers to a horse.
The second, yang, is impossible to translate precisely and can equally refer to a goat or a sheep. ”
Read the whole interesting article here.