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Yin and yang (English: / j ɪ n /, / j æ ŋ /), also yinyang [1] [2] or yin-yang, [3] [2] is a concept that originated in Chinese philosophy, describing an opposite but interconnected, self-perpetuating cycle. Yin and yang can be thought of as complementary and at the same time opposing forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which ...
The alternation and combination of yang and yin generate water, fire, wood, metal, and earth. With these five [phases of] qi harmoniously arranged, the Four Seasons proceed through them. The Five Phases are simply yin and yang; yin and yang are simply the Supreme Polarity; the Supreme Polarity is fundamentally Non-polar. [Yet] in the generation ...
Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lines, each either "broken" or "unbroken", which represent yin and yang, respectively. [1] Each line having two possible states allows for a total of 2 3 = 8 trigrams, whose early enumeration and characterization in China has had an effect on the history of Chinese philosophy and cosmology .
The Chinese refer to this as the yin-yang theory. We have night, but we also have day. We have work, but we also have play. It is also called the law of the unity of opposites.
Monogram for yang ⚊ U+268A ⚊ Monogram for yin ⚋ U+268B ⚋ Digram for greater yang ⚌ U+268C ⚌ Digram for lesser yin ⚍ U+268D ⚍ Digram for lesser yang ⚎ U+268E ⚎ Digram for greater yin ⚏ U+268F ⚏ White flag ⚐ U+2690 ⚐ From KPS 9566. Map symbol for a battle site. [3] Black flag ⚑ U+2691 ...
Unicode contains a number of characters that represent various cultural, political, and religious symbols. Most, but not all, of these symbols are in the Miscellaneous Symbols block.
In Chinese philosophy, taiji (Chinese: 太極; pinyin: tàijí; Wade–Giles: tʻai chi; trans. "supreme ultimate") is a cosmological state of the universe and its affairs on all levels, including the mutually reinforcing interactions between the two opposing forces of yin and yang, (a dualistic monism), [1] [2] as well as that among the Three Treasures, the four cardinal directions, and the ...
Abe no Seimei, a famous onmyōji. Onmyōdō (陰陽道, also In'yōdō, lit. ' The Way of Yin and Yang ') is a technique that uses knowledge of astronomy and calendars to divine good fortune in terms of date, time, direction and general personal affairs, originating from the philosophy of the yin-yang and the five elements.