Hexagram 15 · line 2
Modesty
謙Qiān
Modesty made known. Constancy is favorable.
Line statement
六二
鳴謙，貞吉。
Modesty made known. Constancy is favorable.
Modesty becomes known at the centered second line without losing its inner basis. Changing Line 2 to firm turns lower mountain into wind and produces Hexagram 46.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · center
Line 2 is the center of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 5: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes