Hexagram 22 · line 2

Grace

賁Bì

Adorning the beard beneath the chin.

Line statement

六二

賁其須。

Adorning the beard beneath the chin.

The beard beneath the chin is adorned at the centered yielding line. Firming Line 2 changes lower fire to heaven and produces Hexagram 26.

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

Moving to 26 · The Taming Power of the Great