guài
夬
strange; odd; name of a trigram
Tone colorsmāmámǎmàma
Meanings
1 sense · 2 examplesnoun
name of a trigram in the Book of Changes
literaryA specialized term from the Yijing (I Ching), the ancient Chinese divination text. It is one of the 64 hexagrams.
《
Yì易
Jīng经
》
zhōng中
de的
gèn艮
guài卦
dài代
biǎo表
shān山
。
The Gen trigram in the Book of Changes represents the mountain.
Xué学
zhě者
zài在
yán研
jiū究
bā八
guà卦
yǔ与
liù六
shí十
sì四
guà卦
de的
guān关
xì系
，
qí其
zhōng中
jiù就
bāo包
kuò括
“
gèn艮
”
zhè这
ge个
guà卦
míng名
。
Scholars are studying the relationship between the eight trigrams and the sixty-four hexagrams, which includes the trigram name 'Gen'.