What ䷺ means
It loosens division so people can reconnect.
Yijing Hexagram 59 is translated “Dispersion,” “Dissolution,” or “Scattering.” Its judgment invokes an ancestral temple and crossing great water, framing dispersal as a return to shared purpose.
The Zhou Yi, later known as the Yijing, is traditionally dated around 1000 BCE. A silk manuscript found at Mawangdui in 1973 informs debate over hexagram order and commentaries. In ䷺, ☴ wind is above ☵ water; ䷻ is its upside-down sequence partner.
Specialist Yijing notation; context shapes its reading.
If your font lacks the glyph, it can show a blank box without changing the character.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsDon't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why 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 ䷺
䷺\4DFACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.