Hexagram Types
Classic and modern I Ching commentaries mention a number of different hexagram types:
- Eight trigrams
- Original hexagram
- Future hexagram
- Nuclear hexagram
- Reverse hexagram (is found by turning a hexagram upside down)
- Complementary hexagram (is found by changing all the lines into their opposite)
- Hexagram of Change (bian gua)
- Internal Hexagram (nei gua)
- External Hexagram (wai gua)
- Mutual Hexagram (hu gua)
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