| 奇门遁甲 |
qí mén dùn jiǎ |
Qimen Dunjia, an ancient system of occult arts used for divination and strategic planning |
| 奇 |
jī |
odd (number) |
| 奇 |
qí |
strange / odd / weird / wonderful / surprisingly / unusually |
| 门 |
Mén |
surname Men |
| 门 |
mén |
gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇) / valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure / way to do sth; knack; method; approach / family; household; lineage / (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic) / (bound form) class; category; division; phylum / classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc / (suffix) -gate (scandal) |
| 遁 |
dùn |
to evade / to flee / to escape |
| 遁 |
dùn |
variant of 遁 |
| 甲 |
jiǎ |
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° |