爻
Meanings
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- 1.the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦[bā guà], e.g. ☶
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Wiktionary
- 1.a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines; a hexagram of the I Ching
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形): 乂 + 乂 – 2 stacked ‘X’ marks. Some possible explanations exist: * two couples of yarrow stalks to perform divinations (see also 學 and 覺) * two couples of bamboo slips to perform calculations (see also 算 and perhaps both 學 and 覺) * two marks to mean "crossing" (compare 交) or two marks with a general meaning (see 駁) Similar but most likely unrelated to the original form of 五.
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Stroke order
Components
爻乂
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
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Derived terms
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