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I CHING LEXICON
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R#:7 R: Strokes:2,4 Wade/Giles:ching3 Freq:26
well, deep, pit
Wieger: #115A, Primitively, it was designed to represent eight square lots of fields, divided among eight families, reserving the middle square for public use, and digging a well in it. The well is represented by a dot. Such was the custom in antiquity.
Wilhelm: H48, The Well.
H48
H48
H48 COTD
H48 COTD
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