Trigram ☲

离 Lí

Fire and sun · Clinging clarity and light

A yin line held between two yang lines: fire, bright outside and hollow within. Its quality is clinging (丽), for fire must attach to something to burn, and its organ is the eye. Clarity depends on what it rests on: a lesson about attention as much as about light.

Image
火Fire and sun
Quality
丽Clinging clarity and light
Family
Middle daughter
Five Phase
火Fire
Body
目the eyes
Animal
雉the pheasant
Early Heaven
east
Later Heaven
south · midsummer, at the solstice

Body, animal and quality: the Shuo Gua (说卦传), the Ten Wings commentary on the trigrams.

Its solar term

In the Later Heaven circle the eight trigrams mark the eight turning points of the year. 离 ☲ opens Summer Solstice.

夏至Xiàzhì · Summer Solstice

The 15 hexagrams that contain it

离 above (outer)

离 below (inner)