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GFSA Multilingual Feng Shui and Yijing Glossary

Explore reviewed feng shui and Yijing terminology by subject, compare names across languages, trace public definitions to source snapshots, and understand differences among schools and cultures.

Interpretive boundary: The library documents terminology, sources and present-day usage. It does not establish scientific causation, medical effectiveness, legal status, one orthodox school or a guaranteed service result.
72reviewed terms
10knowledge domains
4language layers

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Direction and Orientation

中文:方位 English: Direction and Orientation 日本語:方位 한국어: 방위

Foundational concepts

Direction and Orientation (方位) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, The foundational idea of spatial direction, relative position and orientation. A bearing may be refe...

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Feng Shui

中文:風水 English: Feng Shui 日本語:風水 한국어: 풍수

Foundational concepts

Feng shui is a family of historically developed Chinese cultural practices for interpreting and arranging environments through orientation, landform, water, built form and symbolic systems. Schools differ in method, voca...

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Kanyu

中文:堪輿 English: Kanyu 日本語:堪輿 한국어: 감여

Foundational concepts

Kanyu (堪輿) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, A historical label for bodies of knowledge concerned with observing heaven, terrain and human settlement. It is often pa...

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Qi

中文:氣 English: Qi 日本語:気 한국어: 기

Foundational concepts

Qi is a multivalent term in Chinese intellectual history that may refer to breath, material activity, vital processes, or a continuous medium of formation and change. Its meaning varies across texts and thinkers; it shou...

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Sheltering Wind and Gathering Qi

中文:藏風聚氣 English: Sheltering Wind and Gathering Qi 日本語:蔵風聚気 한국어: 장풍취기

Foundational concepts

Sheltering Wind and Gathering Qi (藏風聚氣) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, A form-tradition expression for a site that is sheltered from dispersing winds and understo...

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Sheng Qi

中文:生氣 English: Sheng Qi 日本語:生気 한국어: 생기

Foundational concepts

Sheng Qi (生氣) is a technical term within feng shui and Yijing-related knowledge systems. Specifically, A classical geomantic term for qi understood as generative, circulating or life-supporting, often discussed with terr...

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