I Ching information

*I Ching*
I Ching
	"I (Ching)" in seal script (top), Traditional (middle), and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	易經
Simplified Chinese	易经
Hanyu Pinyin	Yì Jīng
Literal meaning	"Classic of Changes"
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yì Jīng
Bopomofo	ㄧˋ ㄐㄧㄥ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh	Yih Jing
Wade–Giles	I4 Ching1
IPA	[î tɕíŋ]
Wu
Suzhounese	Yih Jin
Hakka
Romanization	Yit6 Gang1
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Yihk Gīng
Jyutping	Jik6 Ging1
IPA	[jèːk kíːŋ]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Ia̍h Keng (col.); E̍k Keng (lit.)
Eastern Min
Fuzhou BUC	Ĭk Gĭng
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese	yek geng
Old Chinese
Baxter (1992)	*ljek (keng)
Baxter–Sagart (2014)	*lek (k-lˤeng)
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet	Kinh Dịch
Chữ Hán	經易
Korean name
Hangul	역경
Hanja	易經
Revised Romanization
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	Yeokgyeong
Japanese name
Kanji	易経
Hiragana	えききょう
Revised Hepburn
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Ekikyō

I Ching (Yijing)
	Title page of a Song dynasty (c. 1100) edition of the I Ching
Original title	易
Country	Zhou dynasty (China)
Language	Old Chinese
Genre	Divination, cosmology
Published	Late 9th century BC
Original text	易 at Chinese Wikisource

The I Ching or Yi Jing (Chinese: 易經, Mandarin: [î tɕíŋ] ^ⓘ), usually translated Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The I Ching was originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC). Over the course of the Warring States and early imperial periods (500–200 BC), it transformed into a cosmological text with a series of philosophical commentaries known as the "Ten Wings".^[1] After becoming part of the Chinese Five Classics in the 2nd century BC, the I Ching was the basis for divination practice for centuries across the Far East and was the subject of scholarly commentary. During the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, it took on an influential role in Western understanding of East Asian philosophical thought.^[2]

As a divination text, the I Ching is used for a Chinese form of cleromancy known as I Ching divination in which bundles of yarrow stalks are manipulated to produce sets of six apparently random numbers ranging from 6 to 9. Each of the 64 possible sets corresponds to a hexagram, which can be looked up in the I Ching. The hexagrams are arranged in an order known as the King Wen sequence. The interpretation of the readings found in the I Ching has been discussed and debated over the centuries. Many commentators have used the book symbolically, often to provide guidance for moral decision-making, as informed by Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The hexagrams themselves have often acquired cosmological significance and been paralleled with many other traditional names for the processes of change such as yin and yang and Wu Xing.

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^ Kern (2010), p. 17.
^ Redmond 2021; Adler 2022, chs. 1,6,7.

[FOOTNOTEKern201017-2] Kern (2010), p. 17.

[FOOTNOTERedmond2021Adler2022chs._1,6,7-3] Redmond 2021; Adler 2022, chs. 1,6,7.

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