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Written by Ken Lai

Essential Chinese Characters

for
Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia

Written by: Ken Lai www.midwestfengshui.com

P.O. Box 2124, Maple Grove, MN 55311, USA

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SIX DIMENSIONS OF IMPERIAL QI-MEN-DUN-JIA

Please study the Chinese characters below to the point that you at least can recognize the
Chinese characters and their meanings. Otherwise you will have a tough time in the
Imperial QMDJ class. There are over 1300 tables in the course manual and most of
them need to be in Chinese or else the manual will be 4- 5000 pages. Each page of tables
will take 24+ pages if the pages were translated in English. So using bilingual tables is
simply impractical and very cumbersome to carry around. Besides the tables just contain
the 94 Chinese characters listed below. If you have studied Feng Shui, you already
know 24 or more already. So this should not be too difficult to learn.

Listed below are the essential Chinese characters found in the six major dimensions of
Imperial QMDJ. Once you can recognize these characters (better if you can write it too),
then you will have no problem with the course manual and the tables inside.

1. BAGUA (trigrams)
-- Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kan, Gen and Dui

QIAN [qin] YANG METAL (Northwest, 6)

KUN [kn] YIN EARTH (Southwest, 2)

ZHEN [zhn] YANG WOOD (East, 3)

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XUN [xn] YIN WOOD (Southeast, 4)

LI [l] FIRE (South, 9)

KAN [kn] WATER (North, 1)

GEN [gn] YANG EARTH (Northeast, 8)

DUI [du] YIN METAL (West, 7)

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2. BA-MEN (8-Gates)
-- Xiu, Sheng, Shang, Du, Jing, Si, Jing and Kai

EIGHT-MEN (GATES)

XIU: REST (water in nature, north, trigram 1)

SHENG: LIVE (earth in nature, NE, trigram 8)

SHANG: HURT (wood in nature, east, trigram 3)

*both simplified and traditional Chinese versions are shown here

DU: HIDING (wood in nature, SE, trigram 4)

JING: SCENE (fire in nature, south, trigram 9)

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SI: DEATH (earth in nature, SW, trigram 2)

JING: SURPRISE (metal in nature, west, trigram 7)

*both simplified and traditional Chinese versions are shown here

KAI: OPEN (metal in nature, NW, trigram 6)

*both simplified and traditional Chinese versions are shown here

MEN: GATE (door)

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3. BA-SHEN (8-gods)
--Zhi-fu, Teng-she, Tai-Yin, Liu-he, Gou-chen (Ba-hu), Zhu-que (Xuan-wu), Jiu-di and
Jiu-tiani (only the second word is shown here for simplicity)

FU: LEAD GOD (Zhi-fu, God on duty, also known as Zhi-shi, fine

weather 1&8)

SHE: SNAKE ( Teng-she, sun, 2&3)

YIN: YIN (Tai-Yin Moon, 3&9)

HE: HARMONY (Liu, he, rain, wood)

CHEN: METAL (Gou-chen, thunder, 5&7)

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HU: TIGER ( Bai-fu, as in White Tiger, opposite of Gou-chen above)

QUE: BIRD (Zhu-que, as in red-bird or red phoenix, 4&9)

WU: MARTIAL ( Xuan-wu, as in Black tortoise, White Tiger, opposite of

Zhu-que )

DI: EARTH (Jiu-di, clouds, 2&8)

TIAN: HEAVEN/ SKY (Jiu-tian, fog, 1&6)

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4. NINE STEMS
This is actually 10 stems, but Jia is hidden (dun), so only nine stems are left

JIA: YANG WOOD (trees)

YI: YIN WOOD (plants)

BING: YANG FIRE (sun, big fire)

DING: YIN FIRE (candle light, small fire)

WU: YANG EARTH

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JI: YIN EARTH

GENG: YANG METAL (big metal)

XIN: YIN METAL (decorative metal)

REN: YANG WATER (sea, ocean, lake)

GUI: YIN WATER (stream, small river)

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EARTHLY BRANCHES
While earthly branches are not part of the 6 dimensions, but you need to know it
because many calculations involves these branches.

ZI: YANG WATER

CHOU: YIN EARTH (wet earth)

YIN: YANG WOOD (trees)

MAO: YIN WOOD (plants)

CHEN: YANG EARTH (wet earth)

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SI: YIN FIRE

WU: YANG FIRE

WEI: YIN EARTH (hot earth)

SHEN: YANG METAL

YOU: YIN METAL

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XU: YANG EARTH (dry earth)

HAI: YIN WATER

ZUN: SUPREME (as in Jia-Zun, the supreme commander)

QI: NOBLE, MYSTERIOUS (as in Yi-Qi, Bing-Qi and Ding-Qi)

YI: PROTOCOL

(as in Wu-Yi, Ji-Yi, Geng-Yi, Xin-Yi, Ren-Yi and Gui-Yi)

XUN: 10-DAYS PERIOD (as in Jia-zi xun, jia-wu xun etc)

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5. JIU-XING (9-STARS)
--Tian-qin, Tian-xin, Tian-zhu, Tian-ren, Tian-ying, Tian-peng, Tian-rui, Tian-chong and
Tian-fu (only the second word is shown here for simplicity)

QIN: FOWL (Tian-qin, typhoon)

XIN: HEART (Tian-Xin, sunny sky)

ZHU: PILLAR (Tian-zhu, frost, ice)

REN: POSITION (Tian-ren, wind and sand)

YING: HEROIC (Tian-ying, blazing sun)

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PENG: GRASS/ VIGOROUS (Tian-peng, rain)

RUI: A SURNAME (Tian-rui, fog)

CHONG: CLASH (Tian-chong, thunder and electricity)

FU: EARTH (Tian-fu, rainbow)

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6. JIU-GONG (9-palaces)
This is the same 3x3 Purple-White or annual flying star chart that we use. You need to
know how Chinese numbers look like. There will be a section devoted to Chinese
numbers. Here we just show you the standard Lao-shu table.

4 9 2

3 5 7

8 1 6

You should be able to recognize the bold Chinese characters. They are from the Ba-gua
or trigrams. Words printed in blue are matching pair of Chinese and numbers.

YIN as in Yin-yang, yin dun (fly the star backward)

YANG as in Yin-yang, yang dun (fly the star forward)

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CHINESE NUMBERS

CHU: BEGINNING (used as a filler like 01, 02.. in Chinese calendar)

YI: ONE

ER: TWO

SAN: THREE

SI: FOUR

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WU: FIVE

LIU: SIX

QI: SEVEN

BA: EIGHT

JIU: NINE

SHI: TEN

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FIVE ELEMENTS

WOOD

FIRE

WATER

METAL

EARTH

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