Water坎

One solid line between two broken. Water and danger.

Image
Water
Nature
Sinking
Direction
North
Family
Middle son
Animal
Pig
Body
Ear
乾坤震巽坎離艮兌
Its place in the later heaven order

坎,陷也。坎為豕。坎為耳。

Shuo Gua

What it is

A strong line held inside weak ones. the Shuo Gua places Kan in the north and names it the trigram of water.

Sources Shuo Gua, Yi Zhuan.