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yáo
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Definitions

yáo the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦[bā guà], e.g. ☶

Etymology

Depicts two X shapes used as divinatory diagrams.

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Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
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Bronze Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
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Bronze Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
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Bronze Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
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Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
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Related Characters

Composed characters:

驳 覐 棥 駁

Component: 㐅

区 风 希 杀 网 赵 凶 冈 肴 刈 囟 㐅 気 罓

Component: 乂

文 义 更 父 艾 匁 図

Components

㐅 乂