Trigram
Lake
兌Tui (Wade-Giles) · duì(pinyin)
the joyous, serene — the open lake, the mouth, gladness.
- Attribute
- the joyous, serene
- Direction
- west
- Season
- autumn
- In the family
- the youngest daughter
- Image
- the open lake, the mouth, gladness
Directions and seasons follow the Later Heaven arrangement, the one Wilhelm's commentary uses.
Doubled, it speaks as
As the lower trigram
- 10 Treading
- 19 Approach
- 38 Opposition
- 41 Decrease
- 54 The Marrying Maiden
- 58 The Joyous, Lake
- 60 Limitation
- 61 Inner Truth
As the upper trigram
In the constellation
Tui in the field: the doubled figure, where the trigram speaks in its own voice, and chapters that carry it above and below.