Etymograph

English

Taixuanjing

Taixuanjing comes from Mandarin 太玄經.

  1. Mandarinmodern太玄經literally ‘Canon of Supreme Mystery’
  2. EnglishtodayTaixuanjing

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern太玄經literally ‘Canon of Supreme Mystery’
  2. EnglishtodayTaixuanjing

Today it means

name A Chinese divinatory text composed by the Confucian writer Yang Xiong (53 BCE-18 CE), similar to and inspired by the I Ching, and having 81 ternary tetragrams.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Mandarin 太玄經 / Taixuanjing