What ䷲ means
It means shock that tests your composure.
In the Zhou Yi, an ancient Chinese divination text traditionally placed around 1000 BCE, repeated thunder frightens people, yet the composed person keeps the vessel used for ritual offerings from spilling. The image turns fear into a prompt for reflection and action.
During the Han period in China, commentators linked Zhen—the name for the Thunder trigram—to wider cosmological patterns of change.
Its tone is divinatory and deliberately esoteric, not a casual weather reaction.
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4Questions people ask
2Why does ䷲ show as a box?
Missing font support. ䷲ is a text character, so a device whose font lacks its glyph may show an empty box.
Can I send Hexagram 51?
Yes, if the recipient knows the Yijing; otherwise, add a brief explanation of the hexagram.
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2How to type or find ䷲
- Also called
- Zhen · Hexagram 51 · The Arousing
- Search it as
- yijing · i ching
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
䷲\4DF2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.




