八卦 bā guà
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bā guà
proper noun
the eight divinatory trigrams
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A set of eight symbols in the 易经 ”Book of Changes”. They are: 乾 ☰ qian, 兌 ☱ dui, 離 ☲ li, 震 ☳ zhen, 巽 ☴ xun, 坎 ☵ kan, 艮 ☶ gen, and 坤 ☷ kun (Guoyu '八卦' n 1; Nylan 2001, p. 218; Yao 2000, p. 58) -
bā guà
noun
gossip
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '八卦' n 3) -
bā guà
noun
idle chat
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '八卦' n 2)
Contained in
- 八卦拳 baguazhang
- 八卦掌 baguazhang
- 八卦阵(八卦陣) eight-trigram battle array
- 炼丹八卦炉(煉丹八卦爐) eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art
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- 卷34 志第29 經籍三 Volume 34 Treatises 29: Bibliography 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 7
- 第七回 Chapter 7 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
- 卷二十一 律曆志 Volume 21: Treatise on Rhythm and the Calendar Book of Han 漢書 — count: 5
- 卷四十五 Scroll 45 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 卷一 Scroll 1 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷四百三十八 列傳第一百九十七 儒林八 湯漢 何基 王柏 徐夢莘弟:得之 從子:天麟 李心傳 葉味道 王應麟 黃震 Volume 438 Biographies 197: Confucian Scholars 8 - Tang Han, He Ji, Wang Bai, Xu Mengshen and younger brothers: Dezhi, nephew: Tianlin, Li Xinchuan, Ye Weidao, Wang Yinglin, Huang Zhen History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
- 卷七十九 志第二十九: 輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 2
- 第十九回 Chapter 19 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 卷二十七上 五行志 Volume 27a: Treatise on the Five Elements 1 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 2
- 卷四十八 志第一 天文一 Volume 48 Treatises 1: Astronomy 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
Collocations
- 画八卦 (畫八卦) 始畫八卦 — Xunzi 荀子, 成相篇第二十五 Chapter 25: Working Songs — count: 16
- 八卦炉 (八卦爐) 八卦爐中逃大聖 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第七回 Chapter 7 — count: 11
- 作八卦 (作八卦) 自伏羲作八卦 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《日者列傳》 Biographies of Soothsayers — count: 10
- 宫八卦 (宮八卦) 九宮八卦式蟠龍圖 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷34 志第29 經籍三 Volume 34 Treatises 29: Bibliography 3 — count: 7
- 在八卦 (在八卦) 放在八卦爐中 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第七回 Chapter 7 — count: 4
- 天地八卦 (天地八卦) 則天地八卦孳也 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷一 Scroll 1 — count: 4
- 易八卦 (易八卦) 作易八卦 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《太史公自序》 Autobiographical Afterword of the Grand Historian — count: 4
- 八卦孳 (八卦孳) 則天地八卦孳也 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷一 Scroll 1 — count: 4
- 八卦斗 (八卦鬥) 易八卦鬥內圖 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷34 志第29 經籍三 Volume 34 Treatises 29: Bibliography 3 — count: 3
- 分八卦 (分八卦) 陣分八卦擺長蛇 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第三十四回 Chapter 34 — count: 3