Hexagram

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·noun A figure of six lines.

II. Hexagram ·add. ·noun In Chinese literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the Yih King, or "Book of Changes.".

III. Hexagram ·add. ·noun A figure composed of two equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon.