- 阴 / Yin
- The broken line; coin values 6 and 8 are yin.
- 阳 / Yang
- The unbroken line; coin values 7 and 9 are yang.
- 经卦 / Trigram
- One of eight three-line patterns: Qian, Dui, Li, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen and Kun.
- 重卦 / Hexagram
- Two trigrams form six lines, numbered from bottom to top.
- 卦辞 / Judgment
- The core text statement for a whole hexagram; favorable and unfavorable terms have context.
- 爻辞 / Line statement
- A core text statement for one position or stage within a pattern.
- 动爻 / Changing line
- Coin values 6 and 9; Plum Blossom instead selects a line by division by six. These are separate rules.
- 本卦 / Primary pattern
- The six-line pattern initially cast.
- 变卦 / Relating pattern
- The pattern after changing lines reverse polarity.
- 互卦 / Nuclear pattern
- Normally formed by lines 2–3–4 below and 3–4–5 above, with method-specific exceptions.
- 体用 / Body and use
- In this Plum Blossom method, the stable trigram is body and the moving one use; other books use the terms differently.
- 世应 / Host and guest
- Two positions in the Najia eight-palace arrangement, three lines apart.
- 十神 / Ten gods
- Ten relation categories comparing an element and polarity to the four-pillar day stem.
- 节 / Jie
- Twelve solar-term instants used for four-pillar month boundaries.
- 大阿尔卡那 / Major Arcana
- The 22 trump cards in this deck; ordering and image tradition should be identified.
- 花色 / Suit
- Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles, fourteen cards per suit.
- 宫廷牌 / Court cards
- Page, Knight, Queen and King in each suit; these may explore roles or actions rather than identify a person.
- 逆位 / Reversal
- A reversed orientation; Waite includes favorable and ambiguous records, rather than one uniform opposite meaning.
- 牌阵 / Spread
- A defined set of positions and their scope; the site’s three-card spreads are contemporary arrangements.
