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䷶

hexagram for abundance

Hexagram for Abundance

䷶ is Feng, Hexagram 55 in the Yijing (I Ching), a Chinese classic used for divination: abundance at a peak, when things are fully visible and a turn may be near. Its meaning reaches beyond wealth or good luck. In an ordinary message, it most likely points to the hexagram itself, so the sender's context matters.

Text symbol
Also called
Feng · Hexagram 55 · abundance hexagram
Search it as
I Ching · Yijing · Book of Changes
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ䷶ means

It means abundance at a turning point, not just wealth. Hexagram 55 is Feng; its judgment in the Zhou Yi, the core text of the Yijing, describes a bright moment when matters are visible and decisive action is possible, but conditions will turn. Its image pairs thunder and lightning with judgment: act while the situation is clear, before fullness becomes excess.

Where does Feng come from?

It belongs to the Zhou Yi divination tradition. That tradition, the source context for the Yijing's hexagram readings, is conventionally associated with circa 1000 BCE.

Feng is one of 64 signs, each made of six broken or unbroken lines arranged in two groups of three. Unicode's 2001 encoding proposal treated these as distinct written signs used in running text. A 2015 interpretation linked Feng's name with a city called Feng that housed a Zhou garrison; that remains a historical proposal, not a settled origin.

Specialist and archival; as a text character, it appears only when the font supports it.

Treat a lone ䷶ as a Yijing reference, not a personal prediction, unless the sender gives that context.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does ䷶ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type ䷶

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 4DF6, then Alt+X to get ䷶.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hexagram for abundance”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 4df6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
䷶
CSS
\4DF6
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
䷶
HTML hex
䷶
CSS content
content: "\4DF6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E4%B7%B6
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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