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八卦

guà
HSK 7freq #6491

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guà
  1. 1.the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经[Yì jīng]
  2. 2.gossip
  3. 3.gossipy

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.bagua (eight divinatory trigrams of the I Ching)
  2. 2.gossip; tittle-tattle; rumour
  3. 3.to gossip; to tittle-tattle
  4. 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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