Hexagram 21 · line 6
Biting Through
噬嗑Shì Hé
A cangue carried on the shoulders hides the ears. Misfortune.
Line statement
上九
何校滅耳，凶。
A cangue carried on the shoulders hides the ears. Misfortune.
At the firm top line, the cangue covers the ears and completes the bodily sequence begun with the toes; if this line yields, upper fire becomes thunder and the figure is Hexagram 51.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary 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 3: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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