Learn I Ching · Hexagram Meanings
A small, sourced hexagram reference
Look up the visible pattern, component trigrams, classical text, and a careful modern reading. This pilot currently covers two of the sixty-four hexagrams—not a complete encyclopedia.
2publishedof 64 hexagrams
Reading the figure
Six lines, read from the bottom upward
- Yang line
- A single unbroken line.
- Yin line
- A line divided at the center.
- Upper + lower
- The top three and bottom three lines form two trigrams.
Published references
Begin with two distinct patterns
No. 1Qian · 乾 Hexagram 1
Qian 乾 — Creative Heaven
Sustained creative strength: power that becomes useful through timing, steadiness, and right conduct.
- Upper
- Qian · Heaven
- Lower
- Qian · Heaven
No. 24Fu · 復 Hexagram 24
Fu 復 — Return
A return to the path: renewal begins quietly, then gains direction through patient, deliberate movement.
- Upper
- Kun · Earth
- Lower
- Zhen · Thunder