Hexagram 23 · line 4
Splitting Apart
剝Bō
Stripping the bed up to the skin. Misfortune.
Line statement
六四
剝床以膚，凶。
Stripping the bed up to the skin. Misfortune.
Stripping reaches the skin at Line 4, the first yielding place of the upper mountain trigram. When this line becomes firm, mountain changes to fire and the figure is Hexagram 35.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes