Three-line trigram
Fire Trigram
離 · Li
Fire is associated here with clarity and radiance and the image of fire. Its bottom-to-top binary line pattern is 101 where 1 represents yang and 0 represents yin.
Fire as a lower or upper trigram
As the lower trigram, Fire 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.