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I Ching / Yijing / 易經

About the I Ching App & Website

A free website and mobile app for exploring all 64 hexagrams, learning practical consultation methods, and returning to the Book of Changes as a tool for thoughtful reflection.

Purpose and features

What the Project Offers

The project makes it easier to study the I Ching’s patterns of change and apply them as prompts for reflection and perspective. It does not promise guaranteed predictions or replace your own judgment.

Creator

Developed by PkDeveloper Agency

Software developer

PkDeveloper Agency develops and maintains the website and mobile app with a focus on clear navigation, useful learning paths, accessibility, and dependable product improvements.

User-Centered Design

Traditional visual cues are paired with readable layouts and familiar controls so newcomers and returning readers can find their way around.

Transparent Content Status

The hexagram Overviews are introductory and under review, and are not a scholarly edition. Where this material comes from sets out what each kind of text on the site is made from.

Continuous Improvement

The project evolves through practical product work: reviewing content, refining accessibility, improving app compatibility, and making each learning path easier to use.

Editorial method

Where this material comes from

Two kinds of text sit on this site and they are not made the same way, so it is worth saying which is which.

The guides

Each of the four guides lists its references at the foot of the page. Three recur: the Chinese Text Project for the received text, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for how the book has been read and argued over, and Joseph Adler's The Yijing: A Guide for structure and divination practice. The history page also cites an inscribed oracle bone held by the Smithsonian, and the introduction cites the Chinese University of Hong Kong on the character 易.

The hexagram Overviews

The Overview on each of the 64 hexagram pages is an interpretive reading, rewritten in plain English for readers worldwide. It is not a translation of the classical text and does not reproduce one. Every hexagram page says so under its Overview.

What is worked out rather than written down

The trigrams named on a hexagram page, its nuclear trigrams and the figures it is related to are all derived from its own six lines rather than typed in by hand. They cannot drift away from the figure they describe, and an error in one would be the same error in all 64.

What is deliberately missing

The Judgment and the six line texts are not published here. The Chinese is ancient and free to use, but a translation is a separate work with its own copyright: James Legge's of 1882 has passed into the public domain, the Wilhelm and Baynes of 1950 has not. The draft this project inherited records no source, and it carries signs of more than one. Until that is settled, publishing it could reprint someone else's translation, so it stays unpublished.

App Store and Google Play

Get the Free I Ching App

The free, ad-supported app includes all 64 hexagrams, a guided consultation flow, locally stored reading history, and selected content available offline. No account is required.

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Entirely optional

Support the Project

Optional contributions help with hosting, maintenance, app development, and content improvement. Contributing does not change access to the website or app.

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