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Originally an ideogram depicting a pig or hedgehog, the character 彖 later shifted primarily to denote the commentaries, or Tuan Zhuan, attached to the hexagrams in the I Ching. These judgments summarize each hexagram's overall meaning and philosophical implications. The character’s structure is cohesive, not relying on a radical-phonetic pairing for its philosophical definition, and it lacks distinct traditional or simplified forms, functioning mainly as a specialized term in classical Chinese divination.
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