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Taoism vs Trigram - What's the difference?

taoism | trigram |

As nouns the difference between taoism and trigram

is that taoism is a Chinese mystical philosophy traditionally founded by Lao-tzu in the 6th century B.C. that teaches conformity to the tao by unassertive action and simplicity while trigram is in Chinese Taoism, a symbol composed of three marks each of two types (creating 8 possible symbols) which are used for philosophical discussion and divination (fortunetelling).

taoism

English

(wikipedia Taoism)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a Chinese mystical philosophy traditionally founded by Lao-tzu in the 6th century B.C. that teaches conformity to the tao by unassertive action and simplicity
  • a religion developed from Taoist philosophy and folk and Buddhist religion and concerned with obtaining long life and good fortune often by magical means

    • Related terms

    * tao * Taoist

    Anagrams

    * * English words suffixed with -ism

    trigram

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia trigram)
  • In Chinese Taoism, a symbol composed of three marks each of two types (creating 8 possible symbols) which are used for philosophical discussion and divination (fortunetelling).
  • A trigraph.
  • (linguistics) a special case of the n''-gram where ''n is 3, used in natural language processing for doing statistical analysis of texts