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The figurative sense reportedly originates from the practice of using trigrams to censor explicit body parts on some Hong Kong tabloids.

八卦

1. bagua(eightdivinatorytrigrams of theI Ching)

   • 八卦以象告，爻彖以情言，剛柔雜居，而吉凶可見矣。[Pre-Classical Chinese,trad.]
     八卦以象告，爻彖以情言，刚柔杂居，而吉凶可见矣。[Pre-Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From:I Ching, 11^th – 8^th centuryBCE

     Bāguà yǐ xiàng gào, yáo tuàn yǐ qíng yán, gāngróu zájū, ér jíxiōng kějiàn yǐ.[Pinyin]

     Theeight trigrams communicate their information by their emblematic figures. The explanations appended to the lines and the completed figures tell how the contemplation of them affected (the makers). The strong and the weak lines appear mixed in them, and (thus) the good and the evil (which they indicate) can be seen.

2. (figurative)gossip;tittle-tattle;rumour

   八卦雜誌／八卦杂志  ― bāguà zázhì  ― gossip magazine;tabloid magazine

Others:

• → English:bagua,pa kua
• → Italian:bagua
• → Tagalog:bagua

八卦

1. (figurative) togossip; totittle-tattle

• 嚼舌 (jiáoshé)
• 嚼舌頭／嚼舌头 (jiáo shétou)

八卦

1. (figurative)prone togossip;gossipy

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/pæti kʷe/ → */patikke/ →/fakke/ →/hakke/

FromMiddle Chinese八卦 (MC peat kweaH).

Thegoon reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

• (Tokyo)はっけ[hàkké] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠k̚ke̞]

八(はっ)卦(け)• (hakke) ^{←はちけ(fatike)?}

1. bagua: theeightdivinatorytrigrams of the易経(Ekikyō,“I Ching”):
   1. ☰ -乾(ken,“qián”)
   2. ☱ -兌(da,“duì”)
   3. ☲ -離(ri,“lí”)
   4. ☳ -震(shin,“zhèn”)
   5. ☴ -巽(son,“xùn”)
   6. ☵ -坎(kan,“kǎn”)
   7. ☶ -艮(gon,“gèn”)
   8. ☷ -坤(kon,“kūn”)
2. (by extension)augury,divination,scrying,fortune-telling; particularly usingbagua trigrams

   Synonyms:占い(uranai),占術(senjutsu),占卜(senboku),卜占(bokusen)

• 当(あ)たるも八卦(はっけ)当(あ)たらぬも八卦(はっけ)(ataru mo hakke ataranu mo hakke)

八(はっ)卦(け)• (Hakke) ^{←はちけ(Fatike)?}

1. aplace name

/pætu kʷa/ →/fakkwa/ →/hakka/

FromMiddle Chinese八卦 (MC peat kweaH).

Thekan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

• (Tokyo)はっか[hàkkáꜜ] (Odaka – [3])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠k̚ka̠]

八(はっ)卦(か)• (hakka) ^{←はつくわ(fatukwa)?}

1. synonym of八卦(hakke,“bagua: theeightdivinatorytrigrams of the易経(Ekikyō,“I Ching”)”)

• 後天(こうてん)八卦(はっか)(kōten hakka)
• 先天(せんてん)八卦(はっか)(senten hakka)

• 八卦掌(はっけしょう)(hakkeshō,“baguazhang”)
• 六十(ろくじゅう)四卦(しけ)(rokujūshike)

• “八^▲卦”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

八卦• (palgwae) (hangeul팔괘)

1. hanja form^? of팔괘(“bagua”)

八卦

1. chữ Hán form ofbát quái(“bagua”)

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