{"path":"/entry/28711","title":"太极 / 太極 (tài jí) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"太极 / 太極 (tài jí): the Absolute or Supreme Ultimate, the source of all things according to some interpretations of Chinese mythology. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":28711,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["太极"],"TRADITIONAL":["太極"]}},"phonetic":"tài jí","phoneticKey":"tai4 ji2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"the Absolute or Supreme Ultimate, the source of all things according to some interpretations of Chinese mythology","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","PROPER_NOUN"],"frequency":21026,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[{"readingId":28715,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["太极拳"],"TRADITIONAL":["太極拳"]}},"phonetic":"tài jí quán","gloss":{"simplified":"shadowboxing or Taiji, T'aichi or T'aichichuan","traditional":null}},{"readingId":43959,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["打太极"],"TRADITIONAL":["打太極"]}},"phonetic":"dǎ tài jí","gloss":{"simplified":"to practice tai chi","traditional":null}}],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Earliest attested in the Xi Ci of the I Ching and in the Zhuangzi. The Mawangdui silk manuscript writes 大恒 for 太极 (tàijí).","traditional":"Earliest attested in the Xi Ci of the I Ching and in the Zhuangzi. The Mawangdui silk manuscript writes 大恆 for 太極 (tàijí)."}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"是故易有太极，是生两仪，两仪生四象，四象生八卦，八卦定吉凶，吉凶生大业。","traditional":"是故易有太極，是生兩儀，兩儀生四象，四象生八卦，八卦定吉凶，吉凶生大業。"},"phonetic":"Shìgù Yì yǒu Tàijí, shì shēng liǎng yí, liǎng yí shēng sì xiàng, sì xiàng shēng bā guà, bā guà dìng jíxiōng, jíxiōng shēng dàyè.","english":"Therefore the Changes has the Supreme Ultimate, which generates the two primary forms; the two forms generate the four images; the four images generate the eight trigrams; the eight trigrams determine fortune and misfortune; fortune and misfortune generate the great enterprise.","ref":"Xi Ci (繫辭)"},{"text":{"simplified":"在太极之先而不为高，在六极之下而不为深，先天地生而不为久，长于上古而不为老。","traditional":"在太極之先而不為高，在六極之下而不為深，先天地生而不為久，長於上古而不為老。"},"phonetic":"Zài Tàijí zhī xiān ér bù wéi gāo, zài liùjí zhī xià ér bù wéi shēn, xiān tiāndì shēng ér bù wéi jiǔ, zhǎng yú shànggǔ ér bù wéi lǎo.","english":"[The Way] precedes the Supreme Ultimate yet is not deemed lofty; it is beneath the six extremities yet is not deemed deep; born before heaven and earth yet is not deemed long-enduring; elder than high antiquity yet is not deemed old.","ref":"Zhuangzi, 大宗師"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":7,"sourceName":"HSK 3.0","name":"Levels 7-9"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}