八卦
HSK 7freq #6491
Meanings
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- 1.the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经[Yì jīng]
- 2.gossip
- 3.gossipy
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Wiktionary
- 1.bagua (eight divinatory trigrams of the I Ching)
- 2.gossip; tittle-tattle; rumour
- 3.to gossip; to tittle-tattle
- 4.prone to gossip; gossipy
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Etymology
The figurative sense reportedly originates from the practice of using trigrams to censor explicit body parts on some Hong Kong tabloids.
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Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
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