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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhɛksəɡɹæm/ Forms: hexagrams [plural], hexagramme [alternative]
Etymology: From hexa- + -gram. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|hexa|gram}} hexa- + -gram Head templates: {{en-noun}} hexagram (plural hexagrams)
  1. A hollow six-pointed star formed by overlapping two equilateral triangles. Synonyms: kagome, Magen David, rhombus star, Shield of David, Star of David, Star of Life Related terms (star shape): pentagram (5-pointed), heptagram (7-pointed), octogram (8-pointed), nonagram (9-pointed), decagram (10-pointed) Translations (star shape): 六角星 (liùjiǎoxīng) (Chinese Mandarin), hexagram [neuter] (Dutch), kuusikanta (Finnish), heksagrammi (Finnish), hexagramme [masculine] (French), Hexagramm [neuter] (German), षट्रेखा (ṣaṭrekhā) [feminine] (Hindi), csillaghatszög (Hungarian), 六角星 (rokkakusei) (alt: ろっかくせい) (Japanese), 六芒星 (alt: ろくぼうせい, rokubōsei, りくぼうせい, rikubōsei) (Japanese), жұлдызды алтыбұрыш (juldızdı altıburıš) (Kazakh), гексаграмма (geksagramma) (Kazakh), хексаграм (heksagram) (Macedonian), heksagram [masculine] (Polish), гексагра́мма (geksagrámma) [feminine] (Russian), хекаграм (Serbo-Croatian), hekagram (Serbo-Croatian), hexagrama [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-hexagram-en-noun-JpeNRXqU Disambiguation of 'star shape': 100 0 0 Disambiguation of 'star shape': 100 0 0
  2. Any of the 64 sets of solid and broken lines, formed by pairs of trigrams, used for divination in the I Ching.
    Sense id: en-hexagram-en-noun-woH1OaVP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with hexa-, English terms suffixed with -gram, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Coins, Divination, Historical currencies Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 52 13 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with hexa-: 24 51 24 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -gram: 22 55 23 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 29 65 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 58 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 34 54 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 28 58 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 23 64 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 25 63 12 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 28 57 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 24 57 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 29 55 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 22 67 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Kazakh translations: 26 58 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 27 55 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 24 61 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 28 56 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 22 67 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 25 58 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 30 60 11 Disambiguation of Coins: 29 45 26 Disambiguation of Divination: 0 100 0 Disambiguation of Historical currencies: 35 54 11 Related terms (I Ching hexagrams): , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ䷿ Related terms (divination): monogram, bigram, digram, trigram, tetragram Disambiguation of 'I Ching hexagrams': 9 89 3 Disambiguation of 'divination': 0 100 0
  3. A large silvern coin minted during the Byzantine Empire.
    Sense id: en-hexagram-en-noun-LaQIGdg~ Categories (other): Byzantine Empire Disambiguation of Byzantine Empire: 2 3 95

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "_dis1": "9 89 3",
          "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
          "word": "䷷"
        },
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          "_dis1": "9 89 3",
          "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
          "word": "䷸"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 89 3",
          "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
          "word": "䷹"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 89 3",
          "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
          "word": "䷺"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 89 3",
          "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
          "word": "䷻"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 89 3",
          "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
          "word": "䷼"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 89 3",
          "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
          "word": "䷽"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 89 3",
          "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
          "word": "䷾"
        },
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          "_dis1": "9 89 3",
          "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
          "word": "䷿"
        }
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          "name": "Byzantine Empire",
          "orig": "en:Byzantine Empire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        "A large silvern coin minted during the Byzantine Empire."
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      "ipa": "/ˈhɛksəɡɹæm/"
    }
  ],
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}
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    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hindi translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Kazakh translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
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      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "pentagram (5-pointed)"
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    {
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "heptagram (7-pointed)"
    },
    {
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "octogram (8-pointed)"
    },
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      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "nonagram (9-pointed)"
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      "sense": "star shape",
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      "sense": "divination",
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      "sense": "divination",
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    },
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      "sense": "divination",
      "word": "tetragram"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷀"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷁"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷂"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷃"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷄"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷅"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷆"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷇"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷈"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷉"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷊"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷋"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷌"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷍"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷎"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷏"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷐"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷑"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷒"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷓"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷔"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷕"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷖"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷗"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷘"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷙"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷚"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷛"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷜"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷝"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷞"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷟"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷠"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷡"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷢"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷣"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷤"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷥"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷦"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷧"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷨"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷩"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷪"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷫"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷬"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷭"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷮"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷯"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷰"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷱"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷲"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷳"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷴"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷵"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷶"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷷"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷸"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷹"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷺"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷻"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷼"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷽"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷾"
    },
    {
      "sense": "I Ching hexagrams",
      "word": "䷿"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "attestations": [
        {
          "date": "1826",
          "references": []
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hollow six-pointed star formed by overlapping two equilateral triangles."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "star",
          "star"
        ],
        [
          "overlapping",
          "overlapping"
        ],
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        ]
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kagome"
        },
        {
          "word": "Magen David"
        },
        {
          "word": "rhombus star"
        },
        {
          "word": "Shield of David"
        },
        {
          "word": "Star of David"
        },
        {
          "word": "Star of Life"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "attestations": [
        {
          "date": "1804",
          "references": []
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the 64 sets of solid and broken lines, formed by pairs of trigrams, used for divination in the I Ching."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Any",
          "any"
        ],
        [
          "set",
          "set"
        ],
        [
          "solid",
          "solid"
        ],
        [
          "broken",
          "broken"
        ],
        [
          "form",
          "form"
        ],
        [
          "pair",
          "pair"
        ],
        [
          "trigram",
          "trigram"
        ],
        [
          "divination",
          "divination"
        ],
        [
          "I Ching",
          "I Ching"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A large silvern coin minted during the Byzantine Empire."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "large",
          "large"
        ],
        [
          "silvern",
          "silvern"
        ],
        [
          "coin",
          "coin"
        ],
        [
          "Byzantine Empire",
          "Byzantine"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɛksəɡɹæm/"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "liùjiǎoxīng",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "六角星"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hexagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "kuusikanta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "heksagrammi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hexagramme"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hexagramm"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "ṣaṭrekhā",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "षट्रेखा"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "csillaghatszög"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ろっかくせい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "rokkakusei",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "六角星"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ろくぼうせい, rokubōsei, りくぼうせい, rikubōsei",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "六芒星"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "lang_code": "kk",
      "roman": "juldızdı altıburıš",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "жұлдызды алтыбұрыш"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "lang_code": "kk",
      "roman": "geksagramma",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "гексаграмма"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "heksagram",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "хексаграм"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "heksagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "geksagrámma",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гексагра́мма"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "lang_code": "sh",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "хекаграм"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "lang_code": "sh",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "word": "hekagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "star shape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hexagrama"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hexagram"
}

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