Star Gauge | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 璇璣圖 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 璇玑图 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | xuanji chart | ||||||||||
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The Star Gauge (Chinese: 璇璣圖; pinyin: xuán jī tú), or translated as "the armillary sphere chart", is the posthumous title given to a 4th-century Chinese poem written by the Sixteen Kingdoms poet Su Hui for her husband. It consists of a 29 by 29 grid of characters, forming a reversible poem that can be read in different ways to form roughly 3,000 smaller rhyming poems.[1] The outer border forms a single circular poem, thought to be both the first and the longest of its kind.