八卦

Etymology
The figurative sense reportedly originates from the practice of using trigrams to censor explicit body parts on some Hong Kong tabloids.

Noun

 * 1) bagua
 * 2)  gossip; tittle-tattle; rumour
 * 1)  gossip; tittle-tattle; rumour

Descendants
Others:

Verb

 * 1)  to gossip; to tittle-tattle

Adjective

 * 1)  prone to gossip; gossipy

Etymology 1
→ * → →

From.

The  reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) bagua: the eight divinatory trigrams of the :
 * 2) ☰ -
 * 3) ☱ -
 * 4) ☲ -
 * 5) ☳ -
 * 6) ☴ -
 * 7) ☵ -
 * 8) ☶ -
 * 9) ☷ -
 * 10)  augury, divination, scrying, fortune-telling; particularly using bagua trigrams

Proper noun

 * 1) a place name

Etymology 2
→ →

From.

The  reading, so likely a later borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) same as  above