The text Tài Xuán Jīng was composed by the Confucian writer Yáng Xióng . The first draft of this work was completed in 2BCE (in the decade before the fall of the Western Han Dynasty). This text is also known in the West as The Alternative I Ching and The Elemental Changes.

The Tai Xuan Jing symbols of the Unicode Standard are an extension of the Yì Jīng

I Ching

The I Ching or "Yì Jīng" , also known as the Classic of Changes, Book of Changes and Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts...

 symbols. Their Chinese aliases most accurately reflect their interpretation; for example, the Chinese alias of code point U+1D300 is "rén", which translates into English as man and yet the English alias is "MONOGRAM FOR EARTH". The monograms are:

• the unbroken line ( ⚊) for heaven ,
• once broken line ( ⚋) for earth ,
• twice broken line ( 𝌀) for man .

See also

• Bigram
  Bigram
  Bigrams or digrams are groups of two written letters, two syllables, or two words, and are very commonly used as the basis for simple statistical analysis of text. They are used in one of the most successful language models for speech recognition...
  
  
• Trigram - (I Ching)
• Hexagram
• Unicode range 10000-1D7FF - (specifically 1D300–1D35F)
• Ternary numeral system
  Ternary numeral system
  Ternary is the base- numeral system. Analogous to a bit, a ternary digit is a trit . One trit contains \log_2 3 bits of information...
  
  

External links

• http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n2416.pdf

• http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D300.pdf
• 《太玄經》 - Full text in Chinese