Trigram ☲

Li 離: Fire

Symbol

☲ 離

Natural image

Fire

Quality

the clinging, clarity

Family role

Middle daughter

Lines, bottom to top

101 (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). Li appears in sixteen of the sixty-four hexagrams, eight times as the upper trigram and eight as the lower.

Li as the upper trigram

• 14 Great Possession
• 21 Biting Through
• 30 The Clinging
• 35 Progress
• 38 Opposition
• 50 The Cauldron
• 56 The Wanderer
• 64 Before Completion

Li as the lower trigram

• 13 Fellowship
• 22 Grace
• 30 The Clinging
• 36 Darkening of the Light
• 37 The Family
• 49 Revolution
• 55 Abundance
• 63 After Completion

See also the eight trigrams.

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