Trigram
Water
坎K'an (Wade-Giles) · kǎn(pinyin)
the abysmal, dangerous — the ravine, the moon, everything that flows.
- Attribute
- the abysmal, dangerous
- Direction
- north
- Season
- midwinter
- In the family
- the middle son
- Image
- the ravine, the moon, everything that flows
Directions and seasons follow the Later Heaven arrangement, the one Wilhelm's commentary uses.
Doubled, it speaks as
As the lower trigram
- 04 Youthful Folly
- 06 Conflict
- 07 The Army
- 29 The Abysmal
- 40 Deliverance
- 47 Oppression
- 59 Dispersion
- 64 Before Completion
As the upper trigram
In the constellation
K'an in the field: the doubled figure, where the trigram speaks in its own voice, and chapters that carry it above and below.