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Chinese
Etymology
The figurative sense reportedly originates from the practice of using trigrams to censor explicit body parts on some Hong Kong tabloids.
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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八
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卦
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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bā
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guà
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Middle Chinese
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‹ pɛt ›
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‹ kwɛH ›
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Old Chinese
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/*pˁret/
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/*ʷˁre-s/
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English
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eight
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prognosticate with Achillea
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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八
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卦
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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No.
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89
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4556
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Phonetic component
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八
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圭
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Rime group
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月
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支
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Rime subdivision
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2
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0
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Corresponding MC rime
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八
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卦
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Old Chinese
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/*preːd/
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/*kʷreːs/
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Noun
八卦
- 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, 11th – 8th 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.
- (figurative) gossip; tittle-tattle; rumour
- 八卦雜誌/八卦杂志 ― bāguà zázhì ― gossip magazine; tabloid magazine
Derived terms
Descendants
Others:
Verb
八卦
- (figurative) to gossip; to tittle-tattle
Synonyms
Adjective
八卦
- (figurative) prone to gossip; gossipy
Japanese
Etymology 1
/pæti kʷe/ → */patikke/ → /fakke/ → /hakke/
From Middle Chinese 八卦 (MC peat kweaH).
The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing.
Pronunciation
Noun
八卦 • (hakke) ←はちけ (fatike)?
- bagua: the eight divinatory trigrams of the 易経 (Ekikyō, “I Ching”):
- ☰ - 乾 (ken, “qián”)
- ☱ - 兌 (da, “duì”)
- ☲ - 離 (ri, “lí”)
- ☳ - 震 (shin, “zhèn”)
- ☴ - 巽 (son, “xùn”)
- ☵ - 坎 (kan, “kǎn”)
- ☶ - 艮 (gon, “gèn”)
- ☷ - 坤 (kon, “kūn”)
- (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
Proper noun
八卦 • (Hakke) ←はちけ (Fatike)?
- 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
Noun
八卦 • (hakka) ←はつくわ (fatukwa)?
- same as はっけ (hakke) above
Derived terms
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
Korean
Noun
八卦 • (palgwae) (hangeul 팔괘)
- hanja form? of 팔괘 (“bagua”)
Vietnamese
Noun
八卦
- chữ Hán form of bát quái (“bagua”).