Hexagram 21 · line 2
Biting Through
噬嗑Shì Hé
Biting through flesh until the nose disappears. No fault.
Line statement
六二
噬膚滅鼻，无咎。
Biting through flesh until the nose disappears. No fault.
Biting through flesh until the nose is covered occurs at the centered yielding line; firming Line 2 changes lower thunder to lake and produces Hexagram 38.
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