八卦

Chinese

		eight	divinatory trigram
trad. (八卦)		八	卦
simp. #(八卦)		八	卦

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bāguà

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ ㄍㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baat³ gwaa³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pat-koa
• Eastern Min (BUC): báik-guá
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pat-kòa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): boih⁴ kuê³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bāguà
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ㄍㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: baguà
    • Wade–Giles: pa¹-kua⁴
    • Yale: bā-gwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baguah
    • Palladius: багуа (bagua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ ku̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baat³ gwaa³
    • Yale: baat gwa
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baat⁸ gwaa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bad³ gua³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːt̚³ kʷaː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pat-koa
    • Hakka Romanization System: bad` gua
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bad⁵ gua⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /pat̚² ku̯a⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: báik-guá
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛiʔ²⁴⁻⁵⁵ kuɑ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pat-kòa
    • Tâi-lô: pat-kuà
    • Phofsit Daibuun: patkoax
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pat̚³²⁻⁴ kua²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pat̚⁵⁻²⁴ kua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pat̚³²⁻⁵ kua²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pat̚³²⁻⁴ kua¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pat̚³²⁻⁴ kua²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: boih⁴ kuê³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: poih khuè
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /poiʔ²⁻⁴ kʰue²¹³/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 八卦

1. 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. [Pinyin]

     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

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (八卦):

• → Japanese: 八卦(はっか) (hakka); 八卦(はっけ) (hakke)
• → Korean: 팔괘(八卦) (palgwae)
• → Vietnamese: bát quái (八卦)

Others:

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

Verb

八卦

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

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 八卦

1. (figurative) prone to gossip; gossipy

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
八	卦
はち > はっ Grade: 1	け Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

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

From Middle Chinese 八卦 (MC peat kweaH).

The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

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

Derived terms

• 八卦(はっけ)置(お)き (hakke-oki)
• 八卦鏡(はっけきょう) (hakkekyō)
• 八卦(はっけ)見(み) (hakkemi)
• はっけよい (hakkeyoi)
• 辻(つじ)八卦(はっけ) (tsuji-hakke)
• 年(とし)八卦(はっけ) (toshi-hakke)

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

Kanji in this term
八	卦
はつ > はっ Grade: 1	か Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

/pætu kʷa/ → /fakkwa/ → /hakka/

From Middle Chinese 八卦 (MC peat kweaH).

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

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)