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If you are looking for guidance in your spiritual life, you need to know the meaning of the 64 hexagrams from the i Ching Book of Changes. Find the meaning of each hexagram, as well as its message, warnings and signs.
There are 64 hexagrams in the I Ching, which are used in divination, consisting of six lines that are either full or broken. Each hexagram has its specific meaning and divination text. But they in turn are made up of pairs of trigrams, with three lines each.
This is a list of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, or Book of Changes, and their Unicode character codes. This list is in King Wen order. (Cf. other hexagram sequences.)
Richard Wilhelm's classic 1923 German translation rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes.
I Ching Hexagrams. Below you will find links to read a comprehensive interpretation for each of the 64 hexagrams from the I Ching Book of Changes. All of these links include the meaning of each line in the I Ching. Click the links to explore each hexagram in detail.
This modern I Ching translation has been carefully written to preserve the philosophical and spiritual meanings of the original, while leaving behind some of the more arcane historic references. These easy-to-understand interpretations are used in iFate's free I Ching readings.
Contents. Hexagram (I Ching) The I Ching book consists of 64 hexagrams. [ 2 ][ 3 ] A hexagram in this context is a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines (爻 yáo), where each line is either Yang (an unbroken, or solid line), or Yin (broken, an open line with a gap in the center).
