# Gen 艮: Mountain

Canonical page: https://thefreeiching.com/trigrams/gen
Last updated: 2026-10-07

- **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](https://thefreeiching.com/library/4)
- [18 Work on the Decayed](https://thefreeiching.com/library/18)
- [22 Grace](https://thefreeiching.com/library/22)
- [23 Splitting Apart](https://thefreeiching.com/library/23)
- [26 Great Taming](https://thefreeiching.com/library/26)
- [27 Nourishment](https://thefreeiching.com/library/27)
- [41 Decrease](https://thefreeiching.com/library/41)
- [52 Keeping Still](https://thefreeiching.com/library/52)

## Gen as the lower trigram

- [15 Modesty](https://thefreeiching.com/library/15)
- [31 Influence](https://thefreeiching.com/library/31)
- [33 Retreat](https://thefreeiching.com/library/33)
- [39 Obstruction](https://thefreeiching.com/library/39)
- [52 Keeping Still](https://thefreeiching.com/library/52)
- [53 Development](https://thefreeiching.com/library/53)
- [56 The Wanderer](https://thefreeiching.com/library/56)
- [62 Small Preponderance](https://thefreeiching.com/library/62)

See also the [eight trigrams](https://thefreeiching.com/trigrams).

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