# Li 離: Fire

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Last updated: 2026-10-07

- **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](https://thefreeiching.com/library/14)
- [21 Biting Through](https://thefreeiching.com/library/21)
- [30 The Clinging](https://thefreeiching.com/library/30)
- [35 Progress](https://thefreeiching.com/library/35)
- [38 Opposition](https://thefreeiching.com/library/38)
- [50 The Cauldron](https://thefreeiching.com/library/50)
- [56 The Wanderer](https://thefreeiching.com/library/56)
- [64 Before Completion](https://thefreeiching.com/library/64)

## Li as the lower trigram

- [13 Fellowship](https://thefreeiching.com/library/13)
- [22 Grace](https://thefreeiching.com/library/22)
- [30 The Clinging](https://thefreeiching.com/library/30)
- [36 Darkening of the Light](https://thefreeiching.com/library/36)
- [37 The Family](https://thefreeiching.com/library/37)
- [49 Revolution](https://thefreeiching.com/library/49)
- [55 Abundance](https://thefreeiching.com/library/55)
- [63 After Completion](https://thefreeiching.com/library/63)

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

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