Hexagram 21 · line 4
Biting Through
噬嗑Shì Hé
Biting bone-in dried meat and finding a metal arrow. Constancy through difficulty is beneficial. Favorable.
Line statement
九四
噬乾胏，得金矢。利艱貞，吉。
Biting bone-in dried meat and finding a metal arrow. Constancy through difficulty is beneficial. Favorable.
Bone-in dried meat and the metal arrow belong to the firm fourth line, the base of the upper fire trigram. Making it yielding changes fire to mountain and produces Hexagram 27.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes