Hexagram 21 · line 3
Biting Through
噬嗑Shì Hé
Biting dried meat and encountering poison. Slight difficulty. No fault.
Line statement
六三
噬腊肉，遇毒。小吝，无咎。
Biting dried meat and encountering poison. Slight difficulty. No fault.
Dried meat and poison appear at Line 3, the yielding top of inner thunder. A firm line in that place turns thunder into fire and gives the doubled-fire Hexagram 30.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 6: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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