El taijitu (chino tradicional: 太極圖, chino simplificado: 太极图, pinyin: taìjítú, Wade-Giles: t'ai4 chi2 t'u2) es un símbolo que representa los conceptos de la filosofía china del yin y yang y del taiji, o principio generador de todas las cosas. Es habitual que aparezca rodeado por los ocho trigramas del I Ching. En occidente se suele conocer como "el símbolo del yin y el yang" o "el símbolo taoísta". Este símbolo está asociado al taoísmo y al neoconfucionismo. Los pensadores de tiempos de la dinastía Song de esta última corriente, en especial Zhu Xi (朱熹, Zhū Xī), son los que popularizaron el taijitu más conocido actualmente, aunque existen otros como el de Zhou Dunyi o el llamado Laishi taijitu. El símbolo primero aparecía como motivo ornamental en la iconografía de diversos pueblos europeos antiguos como los celtas, etruscos y romanos.

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A taijitu (Traditional Chinese: 太極圖; Simplified Chinese: 太极图; Pinyin: tàijítú; Wade-Giles: t'ai⁴chi²t'u²) is a symbol or diagram (图 tú) in Chinese philosophy representing Taiji (太极 tàijí "great pole" or "supreme ultimate") representing both its monist (wuji) and its dualist (yin and yang) aspects. Such a diagram was first introduced by Song Dynasty philosopher Zhou Dunyi (周敦頤 1017–1073) in his Taijitu shuo 太極圖說. The modern Daoist canon, compiled during the Ming era, has at least half a dozen variants of such taijitu. The two most similar are the "Taiji Primal Heaven" (太極先天圖 tàijí xiāntiān tú) and the "wuji" (無極圖 wújí tú) diagrams, both of which have been extensively studied during the Qing period for their possible connection with Zhou Dunyi's taijitu. Ming period author Lai Zhide (1525–1604) simplified the taijitu to a design of two interlocking spirals. In the Ming era, the combination of the two interlocking spirals of the taijitu with two black-and-white dots superimposed on them became identified with the He tu or "Yellow River diagram" (河圖). This version was reported in Western literature of the late 19th century as the "Great Monad", and has been widely popularised in Western popular culture as the "yin-yang symbol" since the 1960s. The contemporary Chinese term for the modern symbol is 太极兩儀图 "two-part Taiji diagram". Unicode features the "yin-yang symbol" in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, at code point U+262F (YIN YANG ☯). The related "double body symbol" is included at U+0FCA (TIBETAN SYMBOL NOR BU NYIS -KHYIL ࿊), in the Tibetan block. Ornamental patterns with visual similarity to the "yin-yang symbol" are found in archaeological artefacts of European prehistory; such designs are sometimes descriptively dubbed "yin yang symbols" in archaeological literature by modern scholars.

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