# Xun 巽: Wind

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

- **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](https://thefreeiching.com/library/9)
- [20 Contemplation](https://thefreeiching.com/library/20)
- [37 The Family](https://thefreeiching.com/library/37)
- [42 Increase](https://thefreeiching.com/library/42)
- [53 Development](https://thefreeiching.com/library/53)
- [57 The Gentle](https://thefreeiching.com/library/57)
- [59 Dispersion](https://thefreeiching.com/library/59)
- [61 Inner Truth](https://thefreeiching.com/library/61)

## Xun as the lower trigram

- [18 Work on the Decayed](https://thefreeiching.com/library/18)
- [28 Great Preponderance](https://thefreeiching.com/library/28)
- [32 Duration](https://thefreeiching.com/library/32)
- [44 Coming to Meet](https://thefreeiching.com/library/44)
- [46 Pushing Upward](https://thefreeiching.com/library/46)
- [48 The Well](https://thefreeiching.com/library/48)
- [50 The Cauldron](https://thefreeiching.com/library/50)
- [57 The Gentle](https://thefreeiching.com/library/57)

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

## Cite this page

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

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