Hexagram 23 · line 6
Splitting Apart
剝Bō
A great fruit remains uneaten. The exemplary person receives a carriage; the small person strips away the hut.
Line statement
上九
碩果不食，君子得輿，小人剝廬。
A great fruit remains uneaten. The exemplary person receives a carriage; the small person strips away the hut.
The remaining great fruit and the two social outcomes stand at the figure's only firm line, at the top. If it yields, no firm line remains and the figure becomes Hexagram 2.
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.
One line changes