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Radical 182 or radical wind (風部) meaning "wind" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 182 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. In Taoist cosmology, 風 (wind) is the nature component of the Bagua diagram 巽 Xùn.
A dictionary of Chinese symbols : hidden symbols in Chinese life and thought. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-203-03877-2. OCLC 826514710. Ren, Liqi (2013). Traditional Chinese visual design elements: their applicability in contemporary Chinese design (Master of Science in Design thesis). Arizona State University.
Wuxing (Chinese: 五行; pinyin: wǔxíng), [a] usually translated as Five Phases or Five Agents, [2] is a fivefold conceptual scheme used in many traditional Chinese fields of study to explain a wide array of phenomena, including cosmic cycles, the interactions between internal organs, the succession of political regimes, and the properties of ...
In Chinese philosophy, earth or soil (Chinese: 土; pinyin: tǔ) is one of the five concepts that conform the wuxing. Earth is the balance of both yin and yang in the Wuxing philosophy, as well as the changing or central point of physical matter or a subject. [1] Its motion is centralising, and its energy is stabilizing and conserving.
The symbol 睽 also means separated, estranged, and stare. Its inner (lower) trigram is ☱ ( 兌 duì) open = ( 澤 ) swamp, and its outer (upper) trigram is ☲ ( 離 lí) radiance = ( 火 ) fire.
Early Chinese wind spirits were many. The Shang had the masters of the four directions, [9] an eastern tradition had the naturalistic "Great Wind" (大風), another tradition considered the winnowing basket constellation (箕星, [10] comprising four stars in Sagittarius) as the controller of the winds, the south had Feilian, and theorists have speculated that a number of named mythical birds ...
The bagua (Chinese: 八卦; pinyin: bāguà; lit. 'eight trigrams') is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another. Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lines, each either "broken" or "unbroken", which represent yin and yang ...
In Chinese philosophy, wood (Chinese: 木; pinyin: mù), sometimes translated as Tree, [1] is the growing of the matter, or the matter's growing expanding stage. [2] Wood is the first phase of Wu Xing when observing or discussing movement or growth. Wood is the lesser yang character (yin within yang) of the Five elements, fuelling Fire.