I Ching Hexagram Lookup

If you’ve already cast the coins, you can use this chart to look up your hexagram number and the corresponding interpretation and artwork. Remember that if you have changing lines, pay special attention to those lines only, and you can get a sense of what the future holds by looking up your future hexagram that the changing lines produce when they are flipped into their opposite.

	Upper Trigram	Quian	Zhen	Kan	Gen	Kun	Xun	Li	Dui
Lower Trigram
Quian		1	34	5	26	11	9	14	43
Zhen		25	51	3	27	24	42	21	17
Kan		6	40	29	4	7	59	64	47
Gen		33	62	39	52	15	53	56	31
Kun		12	16	8	23	2	20	35	45
Xun		44	32	48	18	46	57	50	28
Li		13	55	63	22	36	37	30	49
Dui		10	54	60	41	19	61	38	58

Other I Ching Books and Resources

• How To: Give Yourself an I Ching Reading
• Photo Album: Hexagram Artwork
• Article: History of the I Ching

Like any other ancient text, I Ching books on the market today offer an assortment of translations to choose from. Some translators have modernized the text, removing gender bias and archaic language. Others have elaborated on the explanations, and only roughly paraphrase the original text. There is a range of quality in translations. Although the Wilhelm/Baynes version by Princeton Press, with its forward by Carl Jung, is certainly the most popular, it is tainted by the politics of the 19th century and tends to be slightly Germanic (having been translated into English from German, which was the original language of translation from the ancient Chinese). This version faithfully preserves the militarism and sexism of patriarchal China going back to the time of Confucius and before. Another version that is also faithful to the original Chinese, but far easier to digest, is The Complete I Ching: The Definitive Translation by the Taoist Master Alfred Huang, a modern I Ching scholar from Shanghai. Paul O’Brien’s modern interpretation is among the easiest for inexperienced Westerners to understand and use, which is why we present it here.