Hexagram 48 · line 5
The Well
井Jǐng
The well is clear. Its cold spring can be drunk.
Line statement
九五
井冽，寒泉食。
The well is clear. Its cold spring can be drunk.
Clear, cold water is available to drink at the upper center, Line 5. Changing it replaces upper Water with Earth, forming Hexagram 46. The well’s nourishment can be compared with growth through the earth.
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