there are eight trigrams used in I Ching and Feng Shui, each relating to a different natural process under the headings earth, heaven, fire, water, thunder, marsh, mountain or wind.
a set of three letters (which may be a trigraph, or may not occur in the plaintext language)
a symbol of universal energy composed of three lines; the lines represent combinations of yin (broken line) and yang (solid line) energy. The eight possible configurations form the eight basic energies of the Bagua.
a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system
a representation of one of the eight directions
a series of three lines, either solid (unyielding - yang) or broken (yielding - yin), one on top of the other
a set of three broken or unbroken lines
a set of three consecutive characters taken from a string
a symbol made of three lines
Trigrams are the I-Ching symbols of a combination of three broken and unbroken lines in the original Bagua. Each direction has a trigram.
One of the 8 combinations of three solid or broken lines that are joined in pairs to form the hexagrams of the I Ching.
One of eight figures each made up of three lines either broken of complete. It symbolize the trinity of heaven, man, and earth. Each of trigrams has its own multiple sets of minings and named Kan, Ken, Chen, Sun, Li, Kun, Tui, and Chien.