Hexagram 15 · line 1
Modesty
謙Qiān
With deep modesty, the exemplary person crosses the great river. Favorable.
Line statement
初六
謙謙君子，用涉大川，吉。
With deep modesty, the exemplary person crosses the great river. Favorable.
At the bottom line, the mountain is buried within earth at its lowest point. Firming this yielding place changes the lower trigram to fire and produces Hexagram 36.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes