璇玑图 / 璇璣圖

xuán​jī​tú

Xuanjitu

The "Picture of the Turning Sphere", a famous reversible poem woven into a piece of brocade by [[苏蕙|蘇蕙|su1 hui4]] of the Jin dynasty to express her longing for her exiled husband; its 841 characters can be read in thousands of different ways to form unique poems.

璇玑 (literal) → 璇玑/璇璣 · xuán​jī · jade armillary sphere 图 (literal) → 图/圖 · tú · picture

Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:57 PM