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Six-pointed figure formed by intersecting triangles
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hexagram
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The I Ching book consists of 64 hexagrams . A hexagram is a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines (爻 yáo), where each line is either Yang (an unbroken, or solid line), or Yin (broken, an open line with a gap in the center). The hexagram lines ...
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n. a regular polygon formed by extending each of the sides of a regular hexagon to form two equilateral triangles
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Hexagram \Hex"a*gram\, n. [Hexa- + -gram.] A figure of six lines; specif.: A figure composed of two equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon. In ...
Usage examples of hexagram.
Halophus laid them in a tiny fireset in the middle of the hexagram the wizard had drawn on the purple-black armor.
But my hexagram this morning said, 'In adversity, it furthers one to be persevering,' and yours read, 'Success in small matters.
We were casting hexagrams while the Standards stood and watched over our shoulders.
Before turning off the lights, the master showed Michael some of the hexagrams in the book.
Michael recalled it from the series of hexagrams Wurlitzer had just indicated to him.
Choosing various hexagrams, he rigorously applied his newfound ability to imposing them on other imagined forms: a subway entrance, for example, himself standing above, not seeing down into it, but then little by little finding himself able to move from one imagined point to another, to the steps, down them, to the change booth, purchasing tokens, clanking through the turnstile, noting the people waiting, glimpsing newspaper headlines: secretary of state returns to Mideast FOR TALKS, catching fragments of conversation: "An' I says to her, look, I says, you gotta get aholt a yaself," hearing the cry of the train as it slid into the station, the doors opening, and himself getting on, being carried away into darkness.
The hexagrams on this chart will help you to predict the fortunate years for your people and the jade tablet will give you the authority to judge wisely.
It was much like an ordinary pocket calculator, except that the LCD screen was a little larger than usual, in order to accommodate the abridged judgements of King Wen on each of the sixty-four hexagrams, and also the commentaries of his son, the Duke of Chou, on each of the lines of each hexagram.
Triangles, an uncircled pentagram, and one hexagram, a six-pointed star.