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GFSA Multilingual Feng Shui and Yijing Glossary

Explore reviewed feng shui and Yijing terminology by subject, compare names across languages, trace public definitions to source snapshots, and understand differences among schools and cultures.

Interpretive boundary: The library documents terminology, sources and present-day usage. It does not establish scientific causation, medical effectiveness, legal status, one orthodox school or a guaranteed service result.
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Door, Principal Room and Stove

中文:門主灶 English: Door, Principal Room and Stove 日本語:門・主・竈 한국어: 문·주·조

Dwellings and built environment

Door, Principal Room and Stove (門主灶) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, A term in some yang-dwelling and Eight-Mansions texts for three priorities: main entrance, pri...

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External Six Matters

中文:外六事 English: External Six Matters 日本語:外六事 한국어: 외육사

Dwellings and built environment

External Six Matters (外六事) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, An umbrella classification for roads, waterways, bridges, temples, landforms or other exterior condition...

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Form Sha

中文:形煞 English: Form Sha 日本語:形煞 한국어: 형살

Dwellings and built environment

Form Sha (形煞) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, A modern umbrella label for forms described as pointed, rushing, oppressive, bow-shaped or otherwise disharmonious. T...

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Internal Six Matters

中文:內六事 English: Internal Six Matters 日本語:内六事 한국어: 내육사

Dwellings and built environment

Internal Six Matters (內六事) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, A traditional classification of selected interior or domestic functions. Lists may include door, stove, ...

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Yang Dwelling

中文:陽宅 English: Yang Dwelling 日本語:陽宅 한국어: 양택

Dwellings and built environment

Yang Dwelling (陽宅) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, A building or place used by the living for residence, work or activity, contrasted with a yin dwelling or burial...

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Yin Dwelling

中文:陰宅 English: Yin Dwelling 日本語:陰宅 한국어: 음택

Dwellings and built environment

Yin Dwelling (陰宅) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, The traditional term for graves, tomb sites and related ancestral burial spaces, an important domain of early fen...

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Earthly Branches

中文:地支 English: Earthly Branches 日本語:十二支 한국어: 지지

Calendrical and temporal systems

Earthly Branches (地支) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, The twelve ordered signs Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. They designate calendr...

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Heavenly Stems

中文:天干 English: Heavenly Stems 日本語:十干 한국어: 천간

Calendrical and temporal systems

Heavenly Stems (天干) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, The ten ordered signs Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren and Gui. They are correlated with yin-yang an...

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Sexagenary Cycle

中文:六十甲子 English: Sexagenary Cycle 日本語:六十干支 한국어: 육십갑자

Calendrical and temporal systems

Sexagenary Cycle (六十甲子) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, The sixty Stem-Branch combinations running from Jiazi to Guihai and repeating in traditional year and day n...

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Stem-Branch System

中文:干支 English: Stem-Branch System 日本語:干支 한국어: 간지

Calendrical and temporal systems

Stem-Branch System (干支) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, The ordered pairing of ten Heavenly Stems with twelve Earthly Branches. Their least common multiple produce...

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Three Cycles and Nine Periods

中文:三元九運 English: Three Cycles and Nine Periods 日本語:三元九運 한국어: 삼원구운

Calendrical and temporal systems

Three Cycles and Nine Periods (三元九運) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, A Sanyuan framework dividing 180 years into upper, middle and lower cycles, each containing th...

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Twenty-Four Solar Terms

中文:二十四節氣 English: Twenty-Four Solar Terms 日本語:二十四節気 한국어: 이십사절기

Calendrical and temporal systems

Twenty-Four Solar Terms (二十四節氣) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, Twenty-four points in the year defined at fifteen-degree intervals of solar longitude, comprising t...

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Book of Burial (Zangshu)

中文:《葬書》 English: Book of Burial (Zangshu) 日本語:『葬書』 한국어: 《장서》

Classics and textual transmission

Book of Burial (Zangshu) (《葬書》) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, An influential burial-geomancy text traditionally attributed to Guo Pu, discussing qi, wind, water,...

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Dili Wujue (Five Essentials of Geography)

中文:《地理五訣》 English: Dili Wujue (Five Essentials of Geography) 日本語:『地理五訣』 한국어: 《지리오결》

Classics and textual transmission

Dili Wujue (Five Essentials of Geography) (《地理五訣》) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, The title of a Qing-period work organizing geomantic method around dragon, focal...

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Qingnang Jing

中文:《青囊經》 English: Qingnang Jing 日本語:『青囊経』 한국어: 《청낭경》

Classics and textual transmission

Qingnang Jing (《青囊經》) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, The title of a short classic valued in later geomantic traditions and centred on Heaven-Earth, yin-yang, Five...

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Qingnang Xu

中文:《青囊序》 English: Qingnang Xu 日本語:『青囊序』 한국어: 《청낭서》

Classics and textual transmission

Qingnang Xu (《青囊序》) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, A geomantic text traditionally attributed to Zeng Wenchuan and linked to Yang Yunsong lineages, often cited for...

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Tianyu Jing

中文:《天玉經》 English: Tianyu Jing 日本語:『天玉経』 한국어: 《천옥경》

Classics and textual transmission

Tianyu Jing (《天玉經》) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, A verse-form text repeatedly commented on in Sanyuan, Xuan Kong and other geomantic traditions, concerning trig...

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Yijing (Book of Changes)

中文:易經 English: Yijing (Book of Changes) 日本語:易経 한국어: 역경

Classics and textual transmission

The Yijing, or Zhouyi, is a Chinese classic comprising statements associated with sixty-four hexagrams and lines together with layered interpretive traditions. It has been used for divination and as a text for reflection...

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