Hexagram 29 · line 5
The Abysmal (Water)
坎Kǎn
The hollow has not reached fullness; the water comes only to an even level. No fault.
Line statement
九五
坎不盈，祗既平，无咎。
The hollow has not reached fullness; the water comes only to an even level. No fault.
Line 5 is the firm center of upper Water; its hollow is level but not full. Once the line yields, Water becomes Earth and Hexagram 7 places receptive ground above the remaining inner danger.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · center
Line 5 is the center of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 2: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
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