trigram

IPA: traɪgræm

Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.
A trigraph.
(linguistics) An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.

Examples of "trigram" in Sentences

This is, you realise, the trigram structure for Presidential Arrogance.
Everyone of the same gender has the same progressed trigram for the same age.
Its inner trigram is ☲ (離 li2) radiance = (火) fire, and its outer trigram is identical.
A progressed trigram for each year of age is derived from a certain arrangement of the trigrams.
So, hey, you do know what enneagram it is, and that it's the bottom trigram that's changed from water to fire.
A trigram is a combination of three lines, solid or broken, as found in the Chinese classic I Ching (The Book of Changes).
And besides you don't know what the Judgement and Image are for these enneagrams until you get them one day and decode the first line of the Image verse into the triple-trigram.
Korea, Southwhite with a red (top) and blue yin-yang symbol in the center; there is a different black trigram from the ancient I Ching (Book of Changes) in each corner of the white field
Flag description: white with a red (top) and blue yin-yang symbol in the center; there is a different black trigram from the ancient I Ching (Book of Changes) in each corner of the white field
The natal trigram, then, for both males and females is not calculated from their years of birth, but rather is taken as their mother's progressed trigram for her age at the year she gave birth to them.