This is the Chinese character for Wên. It means Literary. King Wên was the Literary King who composed the basic Hexagram text of the I Ching (YiJing). His son, Duke Wên of Zhou, composed the line texts for the Hexagrams.
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Beginnings, a quote for the Map.

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The White Rabbit put on his spectacles.
"Where shall I begin, please your Majesty ?" he asked.

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

    - Lewis Carroll

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