Trigram ☶

Gen 艮: Mountain

Symbol

☶ 艮

Natural image

Mountain

Quality

keeping still

Family role

Youngest son

Lines, bottom to top

001 (1 = solid yang, 0 = broken yin)

A trigram is a stack of three lines. Each hexagram is two trigrams: one below (the lower, inner or earlier situation) and one above (the upper, outer or later situation). Gen appears in sixteen of the sixty-four hexagrams, eight times as the upper trigram and eight as the lower.

Gen as the upper trigram

• 4 Youthful Folly
• 18 Work on the Decayed
• 22 Grace
• 23 Splitting Apart
• 26 Great Taming
• 27 Nourishment
• 41 Decrease
• 52 Keeping Still

Gen as the lower trigram

• 15 Modesty
• 31 Influence
• 33 Retreat
• 39 Obstruction
• 52 Keeping Still
• 53 Development
• 56 The Wanderer
• 62 Small Preponderance

See also the eight trigrams.

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