八卦

Chinese

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 八卦 (Gan)
• 八卦 (Cantonese)
• 八卦 (Written Standard Chinese^?)

Etymology

The figurative sense reportedly originates from the practice of using trigrams to censor explicit body parts on some Hong Kong tabloids.

Pronunciation

Noun

八卦

1. bagua (eight divinatory trigrams of the I Ching)

   • 八卦以象告，爻彖以情言，剛柔雜居，而吉凶可見矣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     八卦以象告，爻彖以情言，刚柔杂居，而吉凶可见矣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: I Ching, 11^th – 8^th century BCE

     Bāguà yǐ xiàng gào, yáo tuàn yǐ qíng yán, gāngróu zájū, ér jíxiōng kějiàn yǐ.

     The eight trigrams communicate their information by their emblematic figures. The explanations appended to the lines and the completed figures tell how the contemplation of them affected (the makers). The strong and the weak lines appear mixed in them, and (thus) the good and the evil (which they indicate) can be seen.

2. (figurative) gossip; tittle-tattle; rumour

   八卦雜誌／八卦杂志  ―  bāguà zázhì  ―  gossip magazine; tabloid magazine

Derived terms

Descendants

Others:

• → English: bagua, pa kua
• → Italian: bagua
• → Tagalog: bagua

Verb

八卦

1. (figurative) to gossip; to tittle-tattle

Synonyms

• 嚼舌 (jiáoshé)
• 嚼舌頭／嚼舌头 (jiáo shétou)

Adjective

八卦

1. (figurative) prone to gossip; gossipy

Japanese

Etymology 1

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

八卦

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Bagua

Wikipedia

/pæti kʷe/ → */patikke/ → /fakke/ → /hakke/

From Middle Chinese 八卦 (MC peat kweaH).

The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) はっけ (Heiban – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

八(はっ)卦(け) • (hakke) ^{←はちけ (fatike)?}

1. bagua: the eight divinatory trigrams of the 易経 (Ekikyō, “I Ching”):
   1. ☰ - 乾 (ken, “qián”)
   2. ☱ - 兌 (da, “duì”)
   3. ☲ - 離 (ri, “lí”)
   4. ☳ - 震 (shin, “zhèn”)
   5. ☴ - 巽 (son, “xùn”)
   6. ☵ - 坎 (kan, “kǎn”)
   7. ☶ - 艮 (gon, “gèn”)
   8. ☷ - 坤 (kon, “kūn”)
2. (by extension) augury, divination, scrying, fortune-telling; particularly using bagua trigrams

   Synonyms: 占い (uranai), 占術 (senjutsu), 占卜 (senboku), 卜占 (bokusen)

Derived terms

Idioms

• 当(あ)たるも八卦(はっけ)当(あ)たらぬも八卦(はっけ) (ataru mo hakke ataranu mo hakke)

Proper noun

八(はっ)卦(け) • (Hakke) ^{←はちけ (fatike)?}

1. a place name

Etymology 2

/pætu kʷa/ → /fakkwa/ → /hakka/

From Middle Chinese 八卦 (MC peat kweaH).

The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) はっか​ (Odaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

八(はっ)卦(か) • (hakka) ^{←はつくわ (fatukwa)?}

1. same as はっけ (​hakke) above

Derived terms

• 後天(こうてん)八卦(はっか) (kōten hakka)
• 先天(せんてん)八卦(はっか) (senten hakka)

See also

• 八卦掌(はっけしょう) (hakkeshō, “baguazhang”)
• 六十(ろくじゅう)四卦(しけ) (rokujūshike)

References

Korean

Noun

八卦 • (palgwae) (hangeul 팔괘)

1. Hanja form^? of 팔괘 (“bagua”).

Vietnamese

Noun

八卦

1. chữ Hán form of bát quái (“bagua”).