The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 21
What does I Ching hexagram 21, Biting Through, mean?
噬嗑Fire 離 above
Thunder 震 below
Hexagram 21 of the I Ching is Biting Through (噬嗑), Fire over Thunder. Its judgment opens “Biting through: success.”
The judgment
噬嗑：亨。利用獄。Biting through: success. It favours judging a case.Zhou Yi 周易, 噬嗑, judgment. Source
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.
- First line初九：屨校滅趾，无咎。
- Second line六二：噬膚滅鼻，无咎。
- Third line六三：噬昔肉，遇毒；小吝，无咎。
- Fourth line九四：噬乾胏，得金矢，利艱貞，吉。
- Fifth line六五：噬乾肉，得黃金，貞厲，无咎。
- Top line上九：何校滅耳，凶。
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