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tetragramme

tetragramme is the rare spelling of tetragram.

Meaning of tetragram

Noun

tetragram (plural tetragrams)

  1. A group of four letters.
  2. In the Taixuanjing, a sequence of four lines, each of which may be unbroken, broken once, or broken twice. Each sequence is interpreted as an element of the sets of solid lines (⚊ for Heaven), once-broken lines (⚋ for Earth) and twice-broken lines (𝌀 for Man) formed by combinations of four monograms (two digrams or bigrams, in other words) in the divination of the Taixuanjing.

Forms of tetragramme

pluraltetragrammes

Questions about tetragramme

What is tetragramme the rare spelling of?
Tetragramme is the rare spelling of tetragram.

Words near tetragramme in the dictionary

  1. tetragrammata
  2. tetragrammatic
  3. tetragrammaton
  4. Tetragrammatonic
  5. tetragrammatons
  6. tetragramme
  7. tetragrammes
  8. tetragrams
  9. tetragraph
  10. tetragraphic
  11. tetragraphs

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