Wuji (philosophy)
Wuji 無極 (literally "without ridgepole") originally meant "ultimateless; boundless; infinite" in Warring States Period (476-221 BCE) Daoist classics, but came to mean the "primordial universe" prior to the Taiji 太極 "Supreme Ultimate" in Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE) Neo-Confucianist cosmology. Wuji is also a proper noun in Modern Standard Chinese usage, for instance, Wuji County in Hebei.
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Traditional Chinese | 無極 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 无极 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | "Without Ultimate" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vietnamese | Vô cực | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hangul | 무극 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hanja | 無極 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kanji | 無極 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Kana | むぎょく | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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