Chinese edit

eight divinatory trigram
trad. (八卦)
simp. #(八卦)
 
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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (1) (28)
Final () (75) (32)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () II II
Fanqie
Baxter peat kweaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pˠɛt̚/ /kˠuɛH/
Pan
Wuyun
/pᵚæt̚/ /kʷᵚæH/
Shao
Rongfen
/pæt̚/ /kuæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pəɨt̚/ /kwaɨjH/
Li
Rong
/pɛt̚/ /kuɛH/
Wang
Li
/pæt̚/ /kwaiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pat̚/ /kwaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ba guà
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
baat3 gwaai3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guà
Middle
Chinese
‹ pɛt › ‹ kwɛH ›
Old
Chinese
/*pˁret/ /*[k]ʷˁre-s/
English eight prognosticate with Achillea

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 89 4556
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*preːd/ /*kʷreːs/

Noun edit

八卦

  1. bagua (eight divinatory trigrams of the I Ching)
  2. (figurative) gossip; tittle-tattle; rumour
    八卦雜誌八卦杂志  ―  bāguà zázhì  ―  gossip magazine; tabloid magazine

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (八卦):

Others:

Verb edit

八卦

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

Synonyms edit

Adjective edit

八卦

  1. (figurative) prone to gossip; gossipy

Japanese edit

Etymology 1 edit

 
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Kanji in this term
はち > はっ
Grade: 1

Hyōgaiji
goon

/pæti kʷe/ → */patikke//fakke//hakke/

From Middle Chinese 八卦 (MC peat kweaH).

The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(はっ)() (hakkeはちけ (fatike)?

  1. bagua: the eight divinatory trigrams of the 易経 (Ekikyō, I Ching):
    1. - (ken, qián)
    2. - (da, duì)
    3. - (ri, )
    4. - (shin, zhèn)
    5. - (son, xùn)
    6. - (kan, kǎn)
    7. - (gon, gèn)
    8. - (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 edit
Idioms edit

Proper noun edit

(はっ)() (Hakkeはちけ (fatike)?

  1. a place name

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
はつ > はっ
Grade: 1

Hyōgaiji
kan’on

/pætu kʷa//fakkwa//hakka/

From Middle Chinese 八卦 (MC peat kweaH).

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(はっ)() (hakkaはつくわ (fatukwa)?

  1. same as はっけ (​hakke) above
Derived terms edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998) NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja in this term

Noun edit

八卦 (palgwae) (hangeul 팔괘)

  1. Hanja form? of 팔괘 (bagua).

Vietnamese edit

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun edit

八卦

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