13 August 2012
More than words
(Most of the oracle bone images in this article are from the site of Richard Sears. Quotes from classics are from the site of Donald Sturgeon.) The Chinese character yan 言…
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11 June 2012
Another take on ‘you fu 有孚’
(To see all Chinese characters in this article use Firefox with the Hanazono font.) A few years ago I wrote an article about the meaning of fu 孚. It was appreciated…
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6 March 2012
The lost work of Wallace Andrew Sherrill
A few years ago Frank Coolen told me he had bought a book by W.A. Sherrill which was quite unknown in the world of Yijing students. Indeed, the book is so…
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The banner of Kun
The fifth line of hexagram 2 has the sentence 黃裳元吉 Most often this is translated as something like ‘yellow lower garment/skirt. Greatly auspicious’. The Mawangdui manuscript made me ponder about another…
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5 October 2008
The land bestowed is great
The first three characters of line 2 of hexagram 2, 直方大, are most often translated as ‘straight, square, great’ (Wilhelm, Wu Jing-Nuan, Huang, etc.). It is a sentence which has always…
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