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Three-line groups at the four corners.
Also known as: Four trigrams Korean flag
The four trigram groups set at the corners of the Korean flag, selected from the eight of the classical set.
Mark the four corners of the Korean national flag.
Contexts: History, Public information
Are four of the eight classical trigrams, chosen as two opposed pairs: heaven against earth on one diagonal and water against fire on the other, so the arrangement encodes opposition twice rather than listing four things.
Contexts: History, Public information
Are given by the Korean government an official reading in terms of justice, fruitfulness, wisdom and vitality, which is a modern state gloss on a much older divinatory set; the record attributes it rather than asserting it, because the trigrams carried other meanings for centuries before the flag existed.
Contexts: History, Public information
Four groups of three horizontal bars set at the corners of a field, each bar either unbroken or split into two halves, no two groups alike.