はちけ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of はちけ – see the following entry.

[noun] bagua: the eight divinatory trigrams of the 易経 (Ekikyō, “I Ching”):

[noun] ☰ - 乾 (ken, “qián”)

[noun] ☱ - 兌 (da, “duì”)

[noun] ☲ - 離 (ri, “lí”)

[noun] ☳ - 震 (shin, “zhèn”)

[noun] ☴ - 巽 (son, “xùn”)

[noun] ☵ - 坎 (kan, “kǎn”)

[noun] ☶ - 艮 (gon, “gèn”)

[noun] ☷ - 坤 (kon, “kūn”)

[noun] (by extension) augury, divination, scrying, fortune-telling; particularly using bagua trigrams

[proper noun] a place name

(This term, はちけ, is a historical kana spelling of the above term.)

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