Year Of The... Chinese, Lunar New Year Stamps!

United States
First Round Chinese New Year stamps
January 6, 2005
The first round of twelve Chinese New Year stamps were issued from 1992 to 2004. In 2005 two panes (single-sided and double-sided) of the series were issued (37c denomination). In 2006 one pane of the series was issued again (39c denomination).
The stamps feature paper-cut Chinese zodiac animals by artist Clarence Lee and free-style calligraphy by Lau Bun.

Canada
2011
Year of the rabbit
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Here are some from Singapore's first series: 1996 Rat, 1997 Ox, 1998 Tiger, and 1999 Rabbit.

2018 USPS Year of the Dog design released:

United States
Second Round Chinese (Lunar) New Year stamps
2008 - 2019
Artist Kam Mak created the new design and adopted the paper-cut image of each animal of the zodiac created by Clarence Lee.
Year of the Rat (2008) - Red Lanterns
Year of the Ox (2009) - Lion Dance Costume
Year of the Tiger (2010) - Narcissus Flowers
Year of the Rabbit (2011) - Mandarin Oranges
Year of the Dragon (2012) - Dragon Dance
Year of the Snake (2013) - Bundle of Firecrackers
Year of the Horse (2014) - Traditional Chinese Drums
Year of the Ram (2015) - Prosperity Box of Snacks
Year of the Monkey (2016) - Red-orange Peonies
Year of the Rooster (2017) - Red Packet
Year of the Dog (2018) - Twisting Lucky Bamboo
Year of the Pig (2019) - Peach Blossoms on a Branch

France
Chinese (Lunar) New Year stamps
2005 - 2016
This Chinese New Year series starts with Year of Rooster (2005) and ends with Year of Monkey (2016). The design consists Chinese painting and free-style calligraphy.

France
Chinese Zodiac Signs
January 28, 2017
The booklet stamp set features artwork of Li Zhongyao.

Singapore
Chinese New Year
2008 - 2019
Artist Leo Teck Chong designed this set of 12 stamps symbolizing the Chinese zodiac.

Republic of Korea
New Year's Greetings
2001 - 2012
This set of 12 stamps were issued between 2001 (year of the Horse) and 2012 (year of the Snake). The last five stamps (years of the Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, and Snake) have different design from the earlier seven stamps.

Thailand
Chinese New Year
2003 - 2014
This set of 12 stamps were issued between 2003 (Year of the Goat) and 2014 (Year of the Horse). The design is in traditional Thai style.

Christmas Island
Chinese New Year
2008 - 2019
This stamp set shows the Chinese characters rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig in modern artistic style.

Canada 2019 Year of the Pig

The P domestic rate



The international rate souvenir sheet




These stamp are extremely well printed especially the
embossing on the souvenir sheet.
The scans just don't bring out those features.

Pigsy must have had a makeover, never seen him so well attired.
...and the muck rake, that's never done any work.
Nice stamps.

...and "Couchon!" reminds me of a secret language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8_Z9i23K1o

Japan
Chinese Zodiac Calligraphy
2004 - 2015
This Chinese Zodiac series started with Year of Rooster (2004) and ended with Year of Monkey (2015). Only one calligraphic style was chosen for each zodiac animal for this post.