I Ching Oracle Lookup - Hexagram 47: Oppression

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Welcome to Hexagram 47, Oppression. 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: 47.1.5 means Hexagram 47 with lines 1 and 5 changing.

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47
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47.1
58		 ䷮
47.2
45		 ䷮
47.3
28		 ䷮
47.4
29		 ䷮
47.5
40		 ䷮
47.6
6		 ䷮
47.1.2
17
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47.1.3
43		 ䷮
47.1.4
60		 ䷮
47.1.5
54		 ䷮
47.1.6
10		 ䷮
47.2.3
31		 ䷮
47.2.4
8		 ䷮
47.2.5
16		 ䷮
47.2.6
12
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47.3.4
48		 ䷮
47.3.5
32		 ䷮
47.3.6
44		 ䷮
47.4.5
7		 ䷮
47.4.6
59		 ䷮
47.5.6
64		 ䷮
47.1.2.3
49		 ䷮
47.1.2.4
3
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47.1.2.5
51		 ䷮
47.1.2.6
25		 ䷮
47.1.3.4
5		 ䷮
47.1.3.5
34		 ䷮
47.1.3.6
1		 ䷮
47.1.4.5
19		 ䷮
47.1.4.6
61		 ䷮
47.1.5.6
38
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47.2.3.4
39		 ䷮
47.2.3.5
62		 ䷮
47.2.3.6
33		 ䷮
47.2.4.5
2		 ䷮
47.2.4.6
20		 ䷮
47.2.5.6
35		 ䷮
47.3.4.5
46		 ䷮
47.3.4.6
57
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47.3.5.6
50		 ䷮
47.4.5.6
4		 ䷮
47.1.2.3.4
63		 ䷮
47.1.2.3.5
55		 ䷮
47.1.2.3.6
13		 ䷮
47.1.2.4.5
24		 ䷮
47.1.2.4.6
42		 ䷮
47.1.2.5.6
21
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47.1.3.4.5
11		 ䷮
47.1.3.4.6
9		 ䷮
47.1.3.5.6
14		 ䷮
47.1.4.5.6
41		 ䷮
47.2.3.4.5
15		 ䷮
47.2.3.4.6
53		 ䷮
47.2.3.5.6
56		 ䷮
47.2.4.5.6
23
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47.3.4.5.6
18		 ䷮
47.1.2.3.4.5
36		 ䷮
47.1.2.3.4.6
37		 ䷮
47.1.2.3.5.6
30		 ䷮
47.1.2.4.5.6
27		 ䷮
47.1.3.4.5.6
26		 ䷮
47.2.3.4.5.6
52		 ䷮
47.1.2.3.4.5.6
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About the Transformations of Hexagram 47

Hexagram 47, Oppression (困 Kùn), places Water below Lake. Depth occupies the lower trigram, and openness structures the upper three positions. Changes among lines 1–3 modify Water and the figure's underlying condition; changes among lines 4–6 reshape Lake. Movement crossing the midpoint alters how the concentrated lower pattern relates to the open upper field, rather than changing either structural component in isolation.

To form every result in the table, each designated changing line inverts and the recomposed figure resolves into a second hexagram. The entries include six single-line transformations and fifty-seven multi-line combinations. They also include the unchanging reading, where the six original line values remain intact, no resulting hexagram is formed, and the Judgment of Hexagram 47 alone governs.

When every position changes, Oppression becomes Hexagram 22, Adornment, its all-line complement. Its immediate King Wen partner is Hexagram 48, The Well, related by inversion. Turning Hexagram 47 upside down produces The Well's line order and establishes the consecutive pair. The complementary relation reaches Adornment, while the rotational relation connects the figure to the stable-source configuration that follows it.

For the full Judgment, Image, and line texts, see Hexagram 47: Oppression →