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U+4DD4, ䷔
HEXAGRAM FOR BITING THROUGH

[U+4DD3]
Yijing Hexagram Symbols
[U+4DD5]

Translingual[edit]

Symbol[edit]

  1. (I Ching hexagram) Biting through.

Hexagram 21 is named 噬嗑 (shì kè), "Gnawing Bite". Other variations include "biting through" and "biting and chewing". Its inner (lower) trigram is ( zhèn) shake = () thunder, and its outer (upper) trigram is ( lí) radiance = (Fire (Wu Xing)) fire. [1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Moran, Elizabeth, Joseph Yu (2002) The Complete Idiot's Guide to the I Ching[1], Alpha (Pearson), retrieved 16 October 2008