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Trigram Zhen (Thunder)
CulturalSeedchinese
Construction note
A bagua trigram: three lines, each solid (yang) or broken (yin).
About this symbol
- Meaning
- Thunder, arousing movement.
- Culture / origin
- Ancient China (I Ching / Bagua)
- Era
- Zhou dynasty onward (c. 1000 BCE)
- Historical context
- The eight trigrams combine into the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching and underpin Taoist cosmology and feng shui.
Classical Chinese cosmological symbol in the public domain.
Tags
chineseichingbaguataoist
SVG source
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