Hexagram 43 · line 6
Breakthrough
夬Guài
No cry. In the end, misfortune.
Line statement
上六
无號，終有凶。
No cry. In the end, misfortune.
At Line 6, the traditional reading finds an isolated figure with no allies left to call upon. Filling the yielding top changes Lake into Heaven and produces Hexagram 1, six firm lines.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes