Etymology

Taixuanjing

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Today it means: A Chinese divinatory text composed by the Confucian writer Yang Xiong (53 BCE-18 CE), similar to and inspired by the I Ching, and having 81 ternary tetragrams. Full definition →

Mandarin 太玄經 /太玄经
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  1. Mandarin · borrowed from太玄經 /太玄经
  2. English todayTaixuanjing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 太玄經 /太玄经 (Tàixuánjīng, literally “Canon of Supreme Mystery”).

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