I Ching

The 64 Hexagrams

Each of the 64 hexagrams carries a 卦辞, a 象传 and six 爻辞. Two ways in: by the upper and lower trigram in the grid, or by name in the King Wen sequence below. The classical text is transcribed from the received edition; the plain readings are ours, and are not part of it.

Look up by trigram

Rows are the upper trigram; columns are the lower.

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Learn to read a hexagram first

This site does not cast hexagrams for you. These explain how casting works by hand, and which lines to read once you have a result.

The 64 Hexagrams of the I Ching — Full Text and Readings