Three-line trigram
Water Trigram
坎 · Kan
Water is associated here with depth and risk and the image of water. Its bottom-to-top binary line pattern is 010 where 1 represents yang and 0 represents yin.
Water as a lower or upper trigram
As the lower trigram, Water describes the inner or initiating three lines of a hexagram. As the upper trigram, it forms the outer or completing three lines. The meaning of a full hexagram comes from the complete six-line figure and textual tradition, not from simply adding two trigram keywords together.