I Ching

Summary

I Ching is a literary work^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,336 views/month, #114 of 28,446).^[2]

Key Facts

• I Ching authored Fuxi^[3].
• I Ching is the creator of Fuxi^[4].
• I Ching's image is recorded as I Ching Song Dynasty print.jpg^[5].
• I Ching's instance of is recorded as literary work^[6].
• I Ching's instance of is recorded as divination^[7].
• I Ching's genre is recorded as divination^[8].
• I Ching's genre is recorded as cosmology^[9].
• I Ching's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 230980056^[10].
• I Ching's GND ID is recorded as 4072708-7^[11].
• I Ching's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n79036106^[12].
• I Ching's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12010189h^[13].
• I Ching's IdRef ID is recorded as 027415120^[14].
• I Ching's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00630045^[15].
• I Ching's part of is recorded as Five Classics^[16].
• I Ching's part of is recorded as Three Books of Changes^[17].
• I Ching's part of is recorded as Chinese classics^[18].
• I Ching's has use is recorded as I Ching divination^[19].
• I Ching's Commons category is recorded as I Ching^[20].
• I Ching's language of work or name is recorded as Old Chinese^[21].
• I Ching's country of origin is recorded as Zhou dynasty^[22].
• I Ching's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03ydb^[23].
• I Ching's Open Library ID is recorded as OL33656774W^[24].
• I Ching's has edition or translation is recorded as Q76730987^[25].
• I Ching's topic's main category is recorded as Category:I Ching^[26].
• I Ching's main subject is recorded as divination^[27].

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Works and Contributions

I Ching authored Fuxi^[3]. It is the creator of Fuxi^[4]. Things named for it include Meiji era^[28], a Japanese era name^[29], in Japan^[30] and Yijing Hexagram Symbols^[31], an Unicode block^[32].

Why It Matters

I Ching ranks in the top 0.4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,336 views/month, #114 of 28,446).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[33] It is known by 145 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[34]

Entities named for it include Meiji era^[28], a Japanese era name^[29], in Japan^[30] and Yijing Hexagram Symbols^[31], an Unicode block^[32].