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䷔ U+4DD4, ䷔ HEXAGRAM FOR BITING THROUGH ← ䷓ [U+4DD3] Yijing Hexagram Symbols ䷕ → [U+4DD5]

Translingual

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1. (I Ching hexagram) Biting through.

Hexagram 21 is named 噬嗑 (shì kè), "Gnawing Bite". Other variations include "biting through" and "biting and chewing". Its inner (lower) trigram is ☳ (震 zhèn) shake = (雷) thunder, and its outer (upper) trigram is ☲ (離 lí) radiance = (Fire (Wu Xing)火) fire.[1]

References

1. Moran, Elizabeth; Joseph Yu (2002) The Complete Idiot's Guide to the I Ching‎, Alpha (Pearson), retrieved 16 October 2008