ba gua
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ba gua /bɑː ˈgwɑː/ (also pa kua)
▶noun
- 1 a Chinese religious motif incorporating the eight trigrams of the I Ching, arranged around a symbol denoting the balance of yin and yang.
- 2 a Chinese martial art in which movements are focused on a circle and the defence of eight points around it.
– origin from Chin. bā ‘eight’ + guà ‘divinatory symbols’.
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