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Transliteration of Various words

Chinese transliteration has undergone several radical changes, in the last one hundred and fifty years, since Rev Canon McClatchie first translated the Yi Jing into English. In this paper, I have used the Hanyu Pinyin system of transliteration. « Wade-Giles may be found in some parts. I'm trying to eradicate those instances. »

This appendix was created for three primary reasons:

To help me decipher which term is meant in the various transliterations
To help me locate and eradicate non-Hanyu Pinyin terms in this paper.
To enable others to reformulate the transliterations, into a format that they are more familiar with.

The English meaning, where given, is a rough translation. In most instances, I have not translated the term, as neither an exact, nor a rough approxomation exists in English. The hexagram name table is in the King Wen Order. The other tables are alphabetized according to the Hanyu Pinyin transliteration.

Names of the Trigrams

Hanyu Pinyin	Wade Giles	Legge	Yale	English Translation
Dui	Tui			Lake
Gen	Ken			Mountain
Kan	Kan			Marsh
Kun	Kun			Receptive
Li	li			Fire
Qian	Chien			Creative
Xun	Sun			Wind / Wood
Zhen	Zhen			Thunder

Names of the Hexagrams

Hanyu Pinyin	Wade Giles	Yale System	Legge	Hexagram Number
	Ch'ien			1
	K'un			2
	Chun			3
	Meng			4
	Hsü			5
	Sung			6
	Shih			7
	Pi			8
	Hsiao Ch'u			9
	Lü			10
	T'ai			11
	Pi			12
	T'ung Jen			13
	Ta Yu			14
	Ch'ien			15
	Yü			16
	Sui			17
	Kui			18
	Lin			19
	Kuan			20
	Shih Ho			21
	Pi			22
	Po			23
	Fu			24
	Wu Wang			25
	Ta Ch'u			26
	Yi			27
	Ta Kuo			28
	K'an			29
	Li			30
	Hsien			31
	Heng			32
	Tun			33
	Ta Chuang			34
Dà Qiáng	Ta Chuang	Da Jwang	Tâ Kwang	Hexagram # 34
	Chin			35
	Ming Yi			36
	Chia Jen			37
	K'uei			38
	Chien			39
	Hsieh			40
	Sun			41
	Yi			42
	Kuai			43
	Kou			44
	Ts'ui			45
	Sheng			46
	K'un			47
	Ching			48
	Ko			49
	Ting			50
	Chen			51
	Ken			52
	Chien			53
	Kuei Mei			54
	Feng			55
	Lü			56
	Sun			57
	Tui			58
	Huan			59
	Chieh			60
	Chung Fu			61
	Hsiao Kuo			62
	Chi Chi			63
	Wei Chi			64

Other Terms

Hanyu Pinyin	Wade Giles	Yale System	Legge	English Meaning
Yi Jing	I Ching	Yi Ching	Yî King	The Book of Changes
Yang	Yang	Yang	Yang	Yang
Yin	Yin	Yin	Yin	Yin
Dao	Tao	Tao	Tao	Tao
Fu Xi	Fu Hsu
	Wu Wei			Do without doing
	Wu Chi			That which existed prior to Existence
	Tai Chi			The Universe