Hexagram 54 歸妹 changing to hexagram 22 賁

guī mèi

→

bì

Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 2, 3, 4, 6.

What to read

Four changing lines: read the two unchanged lines of the resulting hexagram; the lower one is the main one. (Rule set out by Zhu Xi in the Yixue qimeng.)

Hexagram 22 賁, line 1

賁其趾，舍車而徒。

The first line, undivided, shows one adorning (the way of) his feet. He can discard a carriage and walk on foot.

The fifth line, divided, shows its subject adorned by (the occupants of) the heights and gardens. He bears his roll of silk, small and slight. He may appear stingy; but there will be good fortune in the end.

The two hexagrams

Hexagram 54 歸妹 — judgment

征凶，无攸利。

Kwei Mei indicates that (under the conditions which it denotes) action will be evil, and in no wise advantageous.

Hexagram 22 賁 — judgment

亨。小利有攸往。

Pî indicates that there should be free course (in what it denotes). There will be little advantage (however) if it be allowed to advance (and take the lead).

The changing lines of hexagram 54

Line	Chinese	Legge
2	眇能視，利幽人之貞。	The second line, undivided, shows her blind of one eye, and yet able to see. There will be advantage in her maintaining the firm correctness of a solitary widow.
3	歸妹以須，反歸以娣。	The third line, divided, shows the younger sister who was to be married off in a mean position. She returns and accepts an ancillary position.
4	歸妹愆期，遲歸有時。	The fourth line, undivided, shows the younger sister who is to be married off protracting the time. She may be late in being married, but the time will come.
6	女承筐无實，士刲羊无血，无攸利。	The sixth line, divided, shows the young lady bearing the basket, but without anything in it, and the gentleman slaughtering the sheep, but without blood flowing from it. There will be no advantage in any way.

English: James Legge (1882), public domain. Chinese: Zhou Yi.

Data: English Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0); Chinese Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.