hexagram

Example Sentences

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He was on a hunt for a non-decimal system of 0 and 1, and researching “I Ching” hexagrams, which were unmistakably binary.

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2018

The games Brown plays are essentially literary: anagrams and hexagrams, fun with the Fibonacci Sequence.

From Time Magazine Archive

She crammed some papers from a drawer into her briefcase, and finally took down the poster with the I Ching hexagrams and folded it away in her pocket.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

A set of ebony blocks, which could be so arranged as to form any of the Chinese hexagrams, were his stock-in-trade, and he always began his divination with an earnest prayer to the gods.

From Lafcadio Hearn by Kennard, Nina H.