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Gen (Mountain)

This is one of the eight trigrams, bundled together in the shape of ☶. It is also one of the 64 hexagrams, composed of two trigrams like this. In the eight-trigram system, it symbolizes the mountain. The mountain is still, meaning that everything can be brought to a conclusion and gets what it is supposed to obtain. The term is composed of one unbroken line and two broken lines. It is considered a yang trigram and symbolizes the male. As the unbroken line lies above the two broken lines, it is considered to stand for the youngest son of a family.

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Gen denotes stopping.
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Gen stands for two mountains side by side, meaning to stop. So what a man of integrity plans to do should never go beyond what his capacity and social status allows him to.
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