陽よう爻こう

noun

yang yao; unbroken line in a trigram

Technical term in I Ching divination; refers to the solid line representing yang, one of the two types of lines that make up trigrams and hexagrams.

See also: 爻

• 易えき経きょうでは、陽よう爻こうは一いっ本ぽんの切きれ目めのない線せんで表あらわされる。

  In the I Ching, a yang yao is represented by a single unbroken line.