Hexagram 61 · line 5
Inner Truth
中孚Zhōng Fú
Trust binds close. No fault.
Line statement
九五
有孚攣如，无咎。
Trust binds close. No fault.
Trust binds closely at the governing center, Line 5, and there is no fault. Its change makes Mountain above Lake, Hexagram 41. The comparison sets a close bond beside the theme of decrease.
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