地水
dei6 seoi2dì shuǐ
English
- a blind man; a visually impaired
- Hexagram for the Army, the seventh of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, whose outer trigram is "field" (representing earth) and inner trigram is "gorge" (representing water); literally: earth and water ----
- (antique) metonymy to blind people, as most blind people in the past divined using Eight Trigrams
粵語 — Cantonese
- 師卦，易經六十四卦之中嘅第七卦；上卦（外卦）坤卦代表地，下卦（內卦）坎卦代表水，因而得名
- （舊式）由於以前盲人好多都幫人占卦，就以卦名借代盲人
Examples
地水南音
Naamyam sung by blind artists
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk