Tetragram for Residence

𝌬 is the Tai Xuan four-line sign named for residence, one of 81 signs in a Chinese divination classic. Its position among those signs and the passage linked to it guide its reading; the label alone does not tell you someone means a home.

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What 𝌬 means

It is the Tai Xuan four-line sign named for residence.

The Taixuan jing is a Chinese classic from the Han dynasty, written by scholar Yang Xiong for divination. Its four-line figures extend the tradition of the Yijing (Book of Changes), a Chinese classic built from six-line figures. The earliest surviving version is the Jin-dynasty edited arrangement by Fan Wang, who placed each sign beside its interpretations.

The text pairs each sign with a poetic image and nine short appraisals. Alongside divination, readers have approached it as a guide to philosophical reflection and timely action.

How do the four lines work?

Each of its four positions has three line forms.

A line is unbroken, split once, or split twice, representing heaven, earth, and human respectively. From top to bottom, the positions are named region, province, department, and house. With three choices at each position, the system has 81 signs; changing any line makes a different tetragram.

A specialist textual sign: in an ordinary message, surrounding words must supply the context.

Read “residence” as the sign’s translated label; by itself, it does not say the sender means a home.