Hexagram 43 · line 5
Breakthrough
夬Guài
Purslane: resolve firmly to remove it. Centered conduct leaves no fault.
Line statement
九五
莧陸夬夬，中行无咎。
Purslane: resolve firmly to remove it. Centered conduct leaves no fault.
Zhu Xi reads the plant at Line 5 as purslane and pairs firm removal with restraint against excess. The firm fifth line lies next to the sole yielding line at the top. Changing Line 5 makes Thunder above Heaven, Hexagram 34.
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.
One line changes