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Hexagram 61 中孚 changing to hexagram 32 恒

zhōng fú
→
héng

Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.

What to read

Five changing lines: read the one unchanged line of the resulting hexagram. (Rule set out by Zhu Xi in the Yixue qimeng.)

Hexagram 32 恒, line 2

悔亡。

The second line, undivided, shows all occasion for repentance disappearing.

The two hexagrams

Hexagram 61 中孚 — judgment

豚魚吉,利涉大川,利貞。

Kung Fû (moves even) pigs and fish, and leads to good fortune. There will be advantage in crossing the great stream. There will be advantage in being firm and correct.

Hexagram 32 恒 — judgment

恆:亨,无咎。利貞,利有攸往。

Hăng indicates successful progress and no error (in what it denotes). But the advantage will come from being firm and correct; and movement in any direction whatever will be advantageous.

The changing lines of hexagram 61

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1虞吉,有它不燕。The first line, undivided, shows its subject resting (in himself). There will be good fortune. If he sought to any other, he would not find rest.
3得敵,或鼓或罷,或泣或歌。The third line, divided, shows its subject having met with his mate. Now he beats his drum, and now he leaves off. Now he weeps, and now he sings.
4月既望,馬匹亡,无咎。The fourth line, divided, shows its subject (like) the moon nearly full, and (like) a horse (in a chariot) whose fellow disappears. There will be no error.
5有孚攣如,无咎。The fifth line, undivided, shows its subject perfectly sincere, and linking (others) to him in closest union. There will be no error.
6翰音登于天,貞凶。The topmost line, undivided, shows its subject in chanticleer (trying to) mount to heaven. Even with firm correctness there will be evil.

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.