八卦

The figurative sense reportedly originates from the practice of using trigrams to censor explicit body parts on some Hong Kong tabloids.

八卦

1. eight divinatory trigrams of the I Ching

   • 八卦以象告，爻彖以情言，剛柔雜居，而吉凶可見矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     八卦以象告，爻彖以情言，刚柔杂居，而吉凶可见矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: I Ching, 3^rd – 2^nd millennia BCE

     Bāguà yǐ xiàng gào, yáo tuàn yǐ qíng yán, gāngróu zájū, ér jíxiōng kějiàn yǐ. [Pinyin]

     The eight trigrams communicate their information by their emblematic figures. The explanations appended to the lines and the completed figures tell how the contemplation of them affected (the makers). The strong and the weak lines appear mixed in them, and (thus) the good and the evil (which they indicate) can be seen.

2. (figuratively) gossip; tittle-tattle; rumour

   八卦雜誌 / 八卦杂志  ―  bāguà zázhì  ―  gossip magazine; tabloid magazine

Others:

• → English: bagua, pa kua
• → Italian: bagua
• → Tagalog: bagua

八卦

1. (figuratively) to gossip; to tittle-tattle

八卦

1. (figuratively) prone to gossip; gossipy

/pæti kʷe/ → */patikke/ → /fakke/ → /hakke/

From Middle Chinese 八卦 (MC pˠɛt̚ kˠuɛ^H).

The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) はっけ [hàkké] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ha̠k̚ke̞]

八卦 (hiragana はっけ, rōmaji hakke, historical hiragana はちけ)

1. bagua: the eight divinatory trigrams of the 易経 (Ekikyō, “I Ching”):
   1. ☰ - 乾 (ken, “qián”)
   2. ☱ - 兌 (da, “duì”)
   3. ☲ - 離 (ri, “lí”)
   4. ☳ - 震 (shin, “zhèn”)
   5. ☴ - 巽 (son, “xùn”)
   6. ☵ - 坎 (kan, “kǎn”)
   7. ☶ - 艮 (gon, “gèn”)
   8. ☷ - 坤 (kon, “kūn”)
2. (by extension) augury, divination, scrying, fortune-telling; particularly using bagua trigrams

   Synonyms: 占い (uranai), 占術 (senjutsu), 占卜 (senboku), 卜占 (bokusen)

• 当 (あ)たるも八 (はっ)卦 (け)当 (あ)たらぬも八 (はっ)卦 (け) (ataru mo hakke ataranu mo hakke)

八卦 (hiragana はっけ, rōmaji Hakke, historical hiragana はちけ)

1. a place name

/pætu kʷa/ → /fakkwa/ → /hakka/

From Middle Chinese 八卦 (MC pˠɛt̚ kˠuɛ^H).

The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) はっか​ [hàkkáꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ha̠k̚ka̠]

八卦 (hiragana はっか, rōmaji hakka, historical hiragana はつくわ)

1. same as はっけ (​hakke) above

• 後 (こう)天 (てん)八 (はっ)卦 (か) (kōten hakka)
• 先 (せん)天 (てん)八 (はっ)卦 (か) (senten hakka)

• 八 (はっ)卦 (け)掌 (しょう) (hakkeshō, “baguazhang”)
• 六十 (ろくじゅう)四 (し)卦 (け) (rokujūshike)