Hexagram 40 · line 5
Deliverance
解Xiè
The exemplary person brings release. Favorable. Even petty people show confidence in the exemplary person.
Line statement
六五
君子維有解，吉。有孚于小人。
The exemplary person brings release. Favorable. Even petty people show confidence in the exemplary person.
At Line 5, release is associated with the ruler’s position. Legge reads the final clause as confidence shown even by petty people; Zhu Xi instead reads their withdrawal as evidence of release. Changing Line 5 makes Lake above Water, Hexagram 47.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · center
Line 5 is the center of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match 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