Trigram ☴

Xun 巽: Wind

Symbol

☴ 巽

Natural image

Wind

Quality

the gentle, penetrating

Family role

Eldest daughter

Lines, bottom to top

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

Xun as the upper trigram

• 9 Small Taming
• 20 Contemplation
• 37 The Family
• 42 Increase
• 53 Development
• 57 The Gentle
• 59 Dispersion
• 61 Inner Truth

Xun as the lower trigram

• 18 Work on the Decayed
• 28 Great Preponderance
• 32 Duration
• 44 Coming to Meet
• 46 Pushing Upward
• 48 The Well
• 50 The Cauldron
• 57 The Gentle

See also the eight trigrams.

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The Free I Ching. "Xun 巽: Wind." https://thefreeiching.com/trigrams/xun (updated 2026-10-07).

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