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Definition of Hexagrams
1. hexagram [n] - See also: hexagram
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexagrams
Literary usage of Hexagrams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by James Legge (1899)
"... and Yao on the first and second hexagrams, and showing how they may be
interpreted of man's nature and doings. SECTION I. KHIEN. ..."
2. The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200) by Yung Sik Kim (2000)
"The age-old tradition, which Chu Hsi did not reject, holds that the legendary
sage Fu Hsi drew the sixty-four hexagrams.60 According to it, the scheme of ..."
3. The Oldest Book of the Chinese, the Yh-king, and Its Authors by Terrien de Lacouperie (1892)
"Moreover, King Wan and the Duke of Chou were both wise men, and in those paragraphs
on the hexagrams and lines ascribed to them, there are absurd and ..."
4. Chinese Philosophy: An Exposition of the Main Characteristic Features of by Paul Carus (1902)
"As to the hexagrams, Dr. Riedel insists that " the specific order of the sixty-four
hexagrams which is carefully preserved and sacredly guarded by devices ..."
5. Sacred Literature by George Leopold Hurst (1905)
"Appendices 3-4 contain, A treatise on the Symbolism of the hexagrams, ...
Appendix 7 is a supplement to the explanations given of hexagrams 1-2. ..."
6. Elementary Synthetic Geometry of the Point, Line and Circle in the Plane by Nathan Fellowes Dupuis (1894)
"61, and these give the point O. But the hexagrams ... Hence the Brianchon points
of these four hexagrams lie upon one connector. .'. the 60 Brianchon points ..."
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