はっけ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of はっけ – see the following entry.

【八卦】 [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, はっけ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)