Hexagram 47 · line 5
Oppression
困Kùn
The nose and feet are cut off; red knee covers bring constraint. Relief comes slowly. Making sacrificial offerings is beneficial.
Line statement
九五
劓刖，困于赤紱，乃徐有說，利用祭祀。
The nose and feet are cut off; red knee covers bring constraint. Relief comes slowly. Making sacrificial offerings is beneficial.
Mutilation and ceremonial insignia coexist in Line 5; relief is slow, and sacrificial sincerity remains relevant. Changing it makes Thunder above Water, Hexagram 40. Release offers a comparison with the slow relief described here.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes