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御定奇門遁甲 Essential Chinese Characters for Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia

Written by: Ken Lai

www.midwestfengshui.com

P.O. Box 2124, Maple Grove, MN 55311, USA

Licensed to: CHINESE FOR EASY QI-MEN-DUN-JIA

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SIX DIMENSIONS OF IMPERIAL QI-MEN-DUN-JIA Please study the Chinese characters below to the point that you at least can recognize the Chinese characters and their meanings. Otherwise you will have a tough time in the “Imperial QMDJ” class. There are over 1300 tables in the course manual and most of them need to be in Chinese or else the manual will be 4- 5000 pages. Each page of tables will take 24+ pages if the pages were translated in English. So using bilingual tables is simply impractical and very cumbersome to carry around. Besides the tables just contain the 94 Chinese characters listed below. If you have studied Feng Shui, you already know 24 or more already. So this should not be too difficult to learn. Listed below are the essential Chinese characters found in the six major dimensions of Imperial QMDJ. Once you can recognize these characters (better if you can write it too), then you will have no problem with the course manual and the tables inside.

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BAGUA (trigrams)

-- Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kan, Gen and Dui

QIAN 乾 [qián] ☰

KUN 坤 [kūn] ☷

ZHEN 震 [zhèn] ☳

YANG METAL

YIN EARTH

YANG WOOD

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(Northwest, 6)

(Southwest, 2)

(East, 3)

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XUN 巽 [xùn] ☴

LI 离 [lí] ☲

YIN WOOD

FIRE

(Southeast, 4)

(South, 9)

KAN 坎 [kǎn] ☵

WATER

GEN 艮 [gèn] ☶

YANG EARTH

DUI 兌 [duì] ☱

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YIN METAL


(North, 1)

(Northeast, 8)

(West, 7)

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2. BA-MEN

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(8-Gates)

-- Xiu, Sheng, Shang, Du, Jing, Si, Jing and Kai

EIGHT-MEN (GATES) XIU:

REST

(water in nature, north, trigram 1)

SHENG:

LIVE

SHANG:

HURT

(earth in nature, NE, trigram 8)

(wood in nature, east, trigram 3)

*both simplified and traditional Chinese versions are shown here

DU:

HIDING

JING:

SCENE

(wood in nature, SE, trigram 4)

(fire in nature, south, trigram 9)


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SI: DEATH

JING:

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(earth in nature, SW, trigram 2)

SURPRISE

(metal in nature, west, trigram 7)


KAI:

OPEN

(metal in nature, NW, trigram 6)


MEN:

GATE

(door)


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3. BA-SHEN

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(8-gods)

--Zhi-fu, Teng-she, Tai-Yin, Liu-he, Gou-chen (Ba-hu), Zhu-que (Xuan-wu), Jiu-di and Jiu-tiani (only the second word is shown here for simplicity)

FU:

LEAD GOD (Zhi-fu, God on duty, also known as Zhi-shi, fine weather 1&8)

SHE:

SNAKE

YIN:

YIN

HE:

CHEN:

HARMONY

METAL

( Teng-she, sun, 2&3)

(Tai-Yin Moon, 3&9)

(Liu, he, rain, wood)

(Gou-chen, thunder, 5&7)


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HU:

QUE:

WU:

TIGER

BIRD

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( Bai-fu, as in White Tiger, opposite of Gou-chen above)

(Zhu-que, as in red-bird or red phoenix, 4&9)

MARTIAL ( Xuan-wu, as in Black tortoise, White Tiger, opposite of

Zhu-que )

DI:

TIAN:

EARTH

HEAVEN/ SKY


(Jiu-di, clouds, 2&8)

(Jiu-tian, fog, 1&6)

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4. NINE STEMS This is actually 10 stems, but Jia is “hidden” (“dun”), so only nine stems are left

JIA: YANG WOOD

YI: YIN WOOD

(trees)

(plants)

BING: YANG FIRE

(sun, big fire)

DING: YIN FIRE

(candle light, small fire)

WU: YANG EARTH


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JI: YIN EARTH

GENG: YANG METAL

XIN: YIN METAL

(big metal)

(decorative metal)

REN: YANG WATER

(sea, ocean, lake)

GUI: YIN WATER

(stream, small river)


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EARTHLY BRANCHES While earthly branches are not part of the “6 dimensions’, but you need to know it because many calculations involves these branches.

ZI: YANG WATER

CHOU: YIN EARTH

(wet earth)

YIN: YANG WOOD

(trees)

MAO: YIN WOOD

(plants)

CHEN: YANG EARTH


(wet earth)

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SI: YIN FIRE

WU: YANG FIRE

WEI: YIN EARTH

(hot earth)

SHEN: YANG METAL

YOU: YIN METAL


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XU: YANG EARTH

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(dry earth)

HAI: YIN WATER

ZUN:

SUPREME

(as in Jia-Zun, the supreme commander)

QI:

NOBLE, MYSTERIOUS

YI:

PROTOCOL

(as in Yi-Qi, Bing-Qi and Ding-Qi)

(as in Wu-Yi, Ji-Yi, Geng-Yi, Xin-Yi, Ren-Yi and Gui-Yi)

XUN:

10-DAYS PERIOD


(as in Jia-zi xun, jia-wu xun… etc)

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5. JIU-XING (9-STARS) --Tian-qin, Tian-xin, Tian-zhu, Tian-ren, Tian-ying, Tian-peng, Tian-rui, Tian-chong and Tian-fu (only the second word is shown here for simplicity)

QIN:

FOWL

XIN:

HEART

ZHU:

PILLAR

REN:

POSITION

YING:

HEROIC

(Tian-qin, typhoon)

(Tian-Xin, sunny sky)

(Tian-zhu, frost, ice)

(Tian-ren, wind and sand)

(Tian-ying, blazing sun)


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PENG:

RUI:

GRASS/ VIGOROUS

A SURNAME

CHONG:

FU:

CLASH

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(Tian-peng, rain)

(Tian-rui, fog)

(Tian-chong, thunder and electricity)

EARTH


(Tian-fu, rainbow)

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6. JIU-GONG (9-palaces) This is the same 3x3 Purple-White or annual flying star chart that we use. You need to know how Chinese numbers look like. There will be a section devoted to Chinese numbers. Here we just show you the standard Lao-shu table.

巽四

離九

坤二

4

9

2

震三

中五

兌七

3

5

7

艮八

坎一

乾六

8

1

6

You should be able to recognize the bold Chinese characters. They are from the Ba-gua or trigrams. Words printed in blue are matching pair of Chinese and numbers.

YIN

YANG

as in Yin-yang, yin dun

(fly the star backward)

as in Yin-yang, yang dun (fly the star forward)


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CHINESE NUMBERS CHU:

BEGINNING

YI:

ONE

ER:

TWO

SAN:

SI:

(used as a filler like 01, 02.. in Chinese calendar)

THREE

FOUR


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WU:

FIVE

LIU:

SIX

QI:

SEVEN

BA:

EIGHT

JIU:

NINE

SHI:

TEN


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FIVE ELEMENTS WOOD

FIRE

WATER

METAL

EARTH


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