I Ching Oracle Lookup - Hexagram 22: Adornment

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Welcome to Hexagram 22, Adornment. The table below maps every combination of changing lines to its resulting hexagram — 63 transformations plus the unchanging reading. The notation reads from the bottom line upward: 22.1.5 means Hexagram 22 with lines 1 and 5 changing.

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22
 		 ䷕
22.1
52		 ䷕
22.2
26		 ䷕
22.3
27		 ䷕
22.4
30		 ䷕
22.5
37		 ䷕
22.6
36		 ䷕
22.1.2
18
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22.1.3
23		 ䷕
22.1.4
56		 ䷕
22.1.5
53		 ䷕
22.1.6
15		 ䷕
22.2.3
41		 ䷕
22.2.4
14		 ䷕
22.2.5
9		 ䷕
22.2.6
11
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22.3.4
21		 ䷕
22.3.5
42		 ䷕
22.3.6
24		 ䷕
22.4.5
13		 ䷕
22.4.6
55		 ䷕
22.5.6
63		 ䷕
22.1.2.3
4		 ䷕
22.1.2.4
50
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22.1.2.5
57		 ䷕
22.1.2.6
46		 ䷕
22.1.3.4
35		 ䷕
22.1.3.5
20		 ䷕
22.1.3.6
2		 ䷕
22.1.4.5
33		 ䷕
22.1.4.6
62		 ䷕
22.1.5.6
39
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22.2.3.4
38		 ䷕
22.2.3.5
61		 ䷕
22.2.3.6
19		 ䷕
22.2.4.5
1		 ䷕
22.2.4.6
34		 ䷕
22.2.5.6
5		 ䷕
22.3.4.5
25		 ䷕
22.3.4.6
51
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22.3.5.6
3		 ䷕
22.4.5.6
49		 ䷕
22.1.2.3.4
64		 ䷕
22.1.2.3.5
59		 ䷕
22.1.2.3.6
7		 ䷕
22.1.2.4.5
44		 ䷕
22.1.2.4.6
32		 ䷕
22.1.2.5.6
48
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22.1.3.4.5
12		 ䷕
22.1.3.4.6
16		 ䷕
22.1.3.5.6
8		 ䷕
22.1.4.5.6
31		 ䷕
22.2.3.4.5
10		 ䷕
22.2.3.4.6
54		 ䷕
22.2.3.5.6
60		 ䷕
22.2.4.5.6
43
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22.3.4.5.6
17		 ䷕
22.1.2.3.4.5
6		 ䷕
22.1.2.3.4.6
40		 ䷕
22.1.2.3.5.6
29		 ䷕
22.1.2.4.5.6
28		 ䷕
22.1.3.4.5.6
45		 ䷕
22.2.3.4.5.6
58		 ䷕
22.1.2.3.4.5.6
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About the Transformations of Hexagram 22

Hexagram 22, Adornment (賁 Bì), sets Fire in the lower trigram and Mountain in the upper. Fire differentiates the inner structure around its central yin line, while Mountain establishes a bounded outer form. A low-line change reconstructs Fire; a high-line change reconstructs Mountain. Combinations involving both ranges alter the relation between internal articulation and external containment rather than limiting transformation to one trigram.

Every indicated moving line in the table inverts, and the six final line values resolve into another numbered hexagram. The table accounts for six changes involving one position and fifty-seven involving multiple positions. It also retains the unchanging reading, in which no inversion occurs, no second hexagram is produced, and the Judgment of Hexagram 22 alone governs.

When all positions reverse polarity, Adornment becomes Hexagram 47, Oppression, its complete complement. The adjacent King Wen pair partner is Hexagram 21, Biting Through, related by inversion. Turning the entire figure of Adornment upside down generates Biting Through's line pattern. The complement and pair thus belong to separate structural correspondences: one changes every line type, whereas the other reverses the arrangement from top to bottom.

For the full Judgment, Image, and line texts, see Hexagram 22: Adornment →