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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

八卦

see styles
bā guà
    ba1 gua4
pa kua
 hakke; hakka
    はっけ; はっか

More info & calligraphy:

Ba Gua
the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; gossip; gossipy
(1) eight trigrams; divination signs; (2) divination; fortune-telling; (place-name) Hatsuke
eight trigrams

八卦掌

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bā guà zhǎng
    ba1 gua4 zhang3
pa kua chang
 hakkeshou / hakkesho
    はっけしょう

More info & calligraphy:

Ba Gua Zhang
baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing)
{MA} eight trigrams palm; ba gua zhang; pa kua chang


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duì
    dui4
tui
 da
    だ
to cash; to exchange; to add (liquid); to blend; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing swamp; ☱
dui (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: swamp, west); (given name) Tooru

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guà
    gua4
kua
 ke
    け
divinatory diagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
divination sign

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kǎn
    kan3
k`an
    kan
 kan
    かん
pit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water; ☵
(1) (archaism) pit; hole; (2) kan (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: water, north); (surname) Kita

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kūn
    kun1
k`un
    kun
 kon
    こん
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth; female principle; ☷; ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)
kun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: earth, southwest); (given name) Mamoru
earth

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xùn
    xun4
hsün
 son
    そん
to obey; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing wood and wind; ☴; ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)
xun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: wind, southeast); (given name) Yuzuru

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yáo
    yao2
yao
 kou / ko
    こう
the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], e.g. ☶
(See 卦) yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram)

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gèn
    gen4
ken
 gon; kon; e
    ごん; こん; え
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing mountain; ☶; ancient Chinese compass point: 45° (northeast)
gen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: mountain, northeast); (given name) Gon


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    li2
li
 ri
    り
to leave; to part from; to be away from; (in giving distances) from; without (something); independent of; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire; ☲
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south); (surname) Mato
To leave, part from, apart from. abandon; translit. li, le, r, re, rai.

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zhèn
    zhen4
chen
 shin
    しん
to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; excited; shocked; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder; ☳
zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east); (surname) Tatsumi
To shake, thunder, tremble, awe, quicken; translit. cin, ci.

卜卦

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bǔ guà
    bu3 gua4
pu kua
to divine using the eight trigrams

煉丹八卦爐


炼丹八卦炉

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liàn dān bā guà lú
    lian4 dan1 ba1 gua4 lu2
lien tan pa kua lu
eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art; Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 13 results for "Eight Trigrams" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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