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The Unicode character set has characters for each of the eight trigrams at codepoints U+2630 to U+2637: (☰ ☱ ☲ ☳ ☴ ☵ ☶ ☷).
In Jackie Chan Adventures, the trigrams are each written on a face of the Pan'ku Box and each of the trigrams represent their own demon sorcerer.
The television series Lost incorporated the bagua into the logos for the DHARMA Initiative.
In the anime and manga Naruto, the Hyuga clan's main attack is the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.
In the anime Cowboy Bebop episode "Boogie Woogie Feng Shui", the device that Maefa uses with the sunstone contains trigrams from the bagua.
The 8 Diagrams, an album released by The Wu-Tang Clan in 2007, features an adaptation of the Bagua map on its cover.
In the film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Snake-Eyes has the Bagua symbols for water and fire printed on the arm of his uniform, since the original comics had the same symbols as the arm tattoo used by members of the Arashikage clan (Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow's clan).
In the movie The Karate Kid, the matches in the final contest sequence take place on large circular Bagua arrangements that delimit the combat area.
In the cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, Airbending is based on Ba Gua. The Ba Gua appears again on Air Temple Island in Avatar's sequel series The Legend of Korra
In Touhou Project, a bullet hell series, the character Marisa Kirisame uses a "mini-Hakkero" with one of the Ba gua diagrams on it.
Marilyn Manson's 8th studio album, "Born Villain", makes extensive visual use of the trigrams.
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