Hexagram 4 · line 4
Youthful Folly
蒙Méng
Trapped in ignorance. Difficulty.
Line statement
六四
困蒙，吝。
Trapped in ignorance. Difficulty.
Confined understanding occupies the yielding fourth line, with no adjacent firm support. A firm line here turns the upper mountain trigram into fire and yields Hexagram 64.
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