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In Chinese philosophy, a taijitu () is a symbol or diagram () representing taiji () in both its monist (wuji) and its dualist (yin and yang) forms. A taijitu in application provides a deductive and inductive theoretical model. Such a diagram was first introduced by Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhou Dunyi of the Song Dynasty in his Taijitu shuo ().
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- Diagram of the Utmost Extremes
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Structure
- History
- Song and Yuan eras
- Ming and Qing eras
- Modern yin-yang symbol
- Similar symbols
- In computing
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
In Chinese philosophy, a taijitu () is a symbol or diagram () representing taiji () in both its monist (wuji) and its dualist (yin and yang) forms. A taijitu in application provides a deductive and inductive theoretical model. Such a diagram was first introduced by Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhou Dunyi of the Song Dynasty in his Taijitu shuo ().
The Fourth Daozang, a Taoist canon compiled in the 1440s CE during the Ming dynasty, has at least half a dozen variants of the taijitu. The two most similar are the Taiji Xiantiandao and wujitu () diagrams, both of which have been extensively studied since the Qing period for their possible connection with Zhou Dunyi's taijitu.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “yin-yang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.