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Hexagram:
33. Retreat
Line #
Drawn as
Energy
Duality
Trigram
Dynamic
Polarity
Upper Trigram
Heaven
Father
Mature Yang
Lower Trigram
Mountain
Youngest Son
Immature Yang
6
5
4
3
2
1
Yang
Yang
Yang
Yang
Yin
Yin
Masculine
Masculine
Masculine
Masculine
Feminine
Feminine
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English Name
Chinese Name
Hanzi
Pinyin
Action
Hexagram:
卦 Guà
33. Retreat
遯
dun / dùn
Disengage
Hidden Influence:
互卦 Hu Guà (nuclear)
44. Coming to Meet
姤
gòu
Encounter
Underlying Cause:
綜卦 Zong Guà (reverse)
19. Approach
臨
lín
Advance
Also known as:
Retreat
Expression:
Affirmation:
"I seek solitude"
Image (Legge):
Mountain under heaven: the image of Retreat. Thus the superior man keeps the inferior man at a distance, not angrily but with reserve.
Judgement (Legge):
Retreat . Success. In what is small, perseverance furthers.
Overall meaning:
Upright Hexagram
Rotated 90°
counter clockwise
Change - - to 0
Change — to 1
Binary Number Created:
111100
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