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- The Yî King (1882), translated by James Legge as Vol. XVI of The Sacred Books of the East
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sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, Commons category, quotes, news, textbook, Wikidata item.Chinese: 易經/易经, variously romanized as the Yìjīng, I-Ching, and Yi-King and typically translated as the Book of Changes, is an ancient Chinese guide to divination based on 64 hexagrams formed by the combination of the 8 trigrams (bagua) formed by sequences of whole (yang) and broken (yin) lines. It is also known as the Zhouyi (周易) from its traditional attribution to the Duke of Zhou. One of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. Almost always published with the commentary known as the Ten Wings (|十翼, Shíyì), traditionally credited to Confucius.
English-language translations of 周易 include: