Hexagram 33 · line 5
Retreat
遯Dùn
Admirable withdrawal. Constancy is favorable.
Line statement
九五
嘉遯，貞吉。
Admirable withdrawal. Constancy is favorable.
Admirable withdrawal belongs to Line 5, the center of outer Heaven. When the line yields, Fire stands above Mountain and the result is Hexagram 56.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · center
Line 5 is the center of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 2: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes