Trigram
Wind
巽Sun (Wade-Giles) · xùn(pinyin)
the gentle, penetrating — wind and wood, gentle unceasing penetration.
- Attribute
- the gentle, penetrating
- Direction
- southeast
- Season
- late spring into early summer
- In the family
- the eldest daughter
- Image
- wind and wood, gentle unceasing penetration
Directions and seasons follow the Later Heaven arrangement, the one Wilhelm's commentary uses.
Doubled, it speaks as
As the lower trigram
- 18 Work on what has been spoiled
- 28 Preponderance of the Great
- 32 Duration
- 44 Coming to Meet
- 46 Pushing Upward
- 48 The Well
- 50 The Caldron
- 57 The Gentle
As the upper trigram
In the constellation
Sun in the field: the doubled figure, where the trigram speaks in its own voice, and chapters that carry it above and below.