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八卦掌
Pinyin:Bāguàzhǎng
Wade-Giles:Pa Kua Chang
Also called:Bāguà Quán
Pa Kua Ch'üan
Bāguà
Pakua
Pakua Boxing
Bāguàzhǎng (八卦掌) is one of the three major internal Chinese martial arts, the other two being Xingyiquan (形意拳) and Taijiquan (太極拳).

Bāguàzhǎng literally means "eight trigram palm," referring to the trigrams of the Yijing, one of the canons of Taoism. In some styles of Baguazhang these diagrams can refer to eight animals, upon which movements in those fighting systems are based.

The trigrams and their corresponding animals in martial arts are:

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