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n. 1 In Chinese Taoism, a symbol composed of three marks each of two types (creating 8 possible symbols) which are used for philosophical discussion and divination (fortunetelling). 2 A trigraph. 3 (context linguistics English) a special case of the n-gram ...
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Trigram may mean: Bagua , a philosophical concept in ancient China A three-letter acronym Trigrams and digrams (also called bigrams) are ordered triplets and pairs, respectively, of any kind of token—however, most often these terms refer to triplets / pairs ...
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n. a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system
Usage examples of trigram.
The thought of keeping weaknesses secret reminded Ju-Hai of the trigram sticks he had left on the table.
Ju-Hai put his trigram jar down, then walked over to Ting and accepted the gift.
Heaven itself, and the twenty-eight principal stars of the zodiac, and the gods for subjugating evil spirits, and the god king of Flying Heaven, and the god of the great long life of Buddha, and the gods of Tien Kan and To Tze, and the great sages of the Trigrams, and the gate gods, and the kitchen gods, and the godly generals in charge of the month and the week and the day and the hour!
In the Eight Trigrams Battle Formation, which he signaled by languidly waving his white feather fan.
The minister did not need stick magic to tell him what the trigrams had revealed.
Within the circle, at the eight points of the compass, were painted the eight trigrams of Heaven, Wind, Water, The Mountain, Earth, Thunder, Fire, and The Lake.
Time and again he stared at the resultant trigrams, as if fixing them in mind.
Eight Trigrams and the Nine Palaces and the Central Palace Thunder, O Great Lord Tiger who enters houses and carries out great massacres, O Tiger who lies in wait beside the road and behind the well, O Tiger who lurks behind the stove and in the hall, O Tiger who stands beside the bed and behind the door of each dwelling, O Tiger who must enter into all fates, O White Tiger, Great White Tiger, your humble servant the Weasel has grossly insulted you, and we bring you his food!
In the Eight Trigrams Battle Formation, which he signaled by languidly waving his white feather fan.
Beyond these four were the Eight Trigrams and surrounding those the Twelve Terrestrial Branches of the zodiac—.