彖

1. Technical/Divinatory: A term used in cosmological or philosophical texts (specifically the //Yijing//) referring to the "Judgment" or summary statement that follows a hexagram's name and precedes the line interpretations.

2. Zoological: A spiny mammal, typically a hedgehog or porcupine.

Functions as a noun.

In early scripts or irregular scribal hands, this glyph may be confused with 卦 (guà, "hexagram").

The glyph operates in two distinct semantic fields determined by the genre of the text: use the divinatory sense for philosophical/cosmological works and the zoological sense for natural history or tribute lists. If neither sense fits the context, consider whether the glyph is a graphic error for 卦.