Hexagram 32 · line 3
Duration
恆Héng
One who does not sustain character may receive disgrace. Persistence brings regret.
Line statement
九三
不恆其德，或承之羞，貞吝。
One who does not sustain character may receive disgrace. Persistence brings regret.
Failure to sustain character appears at Line 3, the edge of inner Wind. The line's change makes Water below Thunder and gives Hexagram 40.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 6: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes