Tool 14 · Chinese system · 梅花易數
Lucky bank account check
by the Chinese system
Cast a hexagram from the digits of a bank account number, casting by numbers as taught in 梅花易數 and see how the self trigram relates to the event trigram, with 5 auspicious levels. No birth date is needed.
Simple reading: the hexagram is cast from the digits of the account number. The text 梅花易數 says nothing about bank accounts. Using it on an account number is a modern adaptation.
Account number cast
Hexagram
What this hexagram is about
Commentary on the hexagram in 《彖傳》
Auspicious level of 5
The text rates this relation as
Upper and lower trigrams
Upper trigram · 體 the self用 the event
Element:
Lower trigram · 體 the self用 the event
Element:
Image and quality of each trigram as given in 《說卦傳》
Moving line line from the bottom, in the upper trigramin the lower trigram
The trigram with the moving line is the event and the other is the self, as the text says: 「有動爻者為用」
卦辭 of this hexagram
Original wording of the 《周易》 It does not speak of bank accounts.
Image of the hexagram 《象傳》
Text of line (the moving line)
This way of casting reads the result from the moving line, so the text of this line is a key part of the hexagram.
互卦 and 變卦
互卦 · middle outcome
Hexagram
- Upper trigram
- Lower trigram
變卦 · closing outcome
Hexagram
- Changed trigram
The text treats the middle and closing hexagrams as secondary to the main one. This page shows how they relate to the self but leaves them out of the auspicious level.
About the translations
English translation by the lucky-number team, following the commentary of 朱熹《周易本義》
《序卦傳》《雜卦傳》《象傳》《說卦傳》 are commentaries in the 十翼 set, written later than the main text.
《彖傳》 is also part of the 十翼 set, written later than the main text. The summary under “What this hexagram is about” is written by the lucky-number team from 卦辭 《彖傳》 《象傳》
Example
Casting example for 123-4-56789-0
Account number cast 123-4-56789-0
Hexagram 4 蒙
Meng (蒙) is ignorance, the immaturity of things.
「蒙者蒙也，物之穉也。」 《序卦傳》
What this hexagram is about
Meng (蒙) concerns ignorance, the youth of all things. Its image is the lower trigram Kan (water) beneath the upper trigram Gen (mountain): a spring flowing out beneath a mountain. The Tuan Zhuan (彖傳) explains that beneath the mountain there is peril, and peril and then stopping is Meng. The text describes success: the young and ignorant seek me, not I them, and twice or thrice is profaning. The text stresses using ignorance to nurture correctness.
Commentary on the hexagram in 《彖傳》
蒙，山下有險，險而止，蒙。蒙亨，以亨行，時中也。匪我求童蒙，童蒙求我，志應也。初筮告，以剛中也。再三瀆，瀆則不告，瀆蒙也。蒙以養正，聖功也。
Meng (蒙): beneath the mountain there is peril; peril, and then stopping: this is Meng. Meng is success; it proceeds by means of success, being in tune with the time and in the middle. It is not I who seek the young and ignorant (童蒙); the young and ignorant seek me, for their aspirations answer each other. At the first casting of the stalks (筮) I tell, because the firm is in the middle. Twice or thrice is profaning, and when profaned I do not tell; this is profaning ignorance. Using ignorance to nurture correctness is the achievement of the sage (聖功).
Auspicious level 3 of 5
體克用 the self's Earth overcomes Water
The text rates this relation as 「諸事吉」 meaning all matters are auspicious
Upper and lower trigrams
Upper trigram · 體 the self用 the event
艮 Gèn
山 · 止 Mountain · stopping
Element: Earth
Lower trigram · 體 the self用 the event
坎 Kǎn
水 · 陷 Water · sinking
Element: Water
Image and quality of each trigram as given in 《說卦傳》
Moving line line 3 from the bottom, in the upper trigramin the lower trigram
The trigram with the moving line is the event and the other is the self, as the text says: 「有動爻者為用」
卦辭 of this hexagram
亨。匪我求童蒙，童蒙求我。初筮告，再三瀆，瀆則不告。利貞。
Success. It is not I who seek the young and ignorant (童蒙); the young and ignorant seek me. At the first casting of the stalks (筮), I tell; twice or thrice is profaning, and when profaned, I do not tell. Beneficial to be correct and steadfast.
Original wording of the 《周易》 It does not speak of bank accounts.
Image of the hexagram 《象傳》
山下出泉，蒙；君子以果行育德。
Beneath the mountain a spring emerges: Meng (蒙). The noble person, taking this as a model, proceeds with decisiveness and nurtures virtue.
Text of line 3 (the moving line)
六三 「勿用娶女，見金夫，不有躬，无攸利。」
Do not put to use taking this woman as wife; seeing a man of gold (金夫), she cannot keep herself; nothing is beneficial.
This way of casting reads the result from the moving line, so the text of this line is a key part of the hexagram.
互卦 and 變卦
互卦 · middle outcome
Hexagram 24 復
Bo (剝) is rotting; Fu (復) is turning back.
- Upper trigram 坤 Earth, the same element as the self
- Lower trigram 震 Wood overcomes the self's Earth
變卦 · closing outcome
Hexagram 18 蠱
Gu (蠱) means affairs.
- Changed trigram 巽 Wood overcomes the self's Earth
The text treats the middle and closing hexagrams as secondary to the main one. This page shows how they relate to the self but leaves them out of the auspicious level.
About the translations
English translation by the lucky-number team, following the commentary of 朱熹《周易本義》
《序卦傳》《雜卦傳》《象傳》《說卦傳》 are commentaries in the 十翼 set, written later than the main text.
《彖傳》 is also part of the 十翼 set, written later than the main text. The summary under “What this hexagram is about” is written by the lucky-number team from 卦辭 《彖傳》 《象傳》
Where this comes from in Chinese texts
- 《梅花易數》卷一「乾，一；兌，二；離，三；震，四；巽，五；坎，六；艮，七；坤，八。」·「乾、兌，金；坤、艮，土；震、巽，木；坎，水；離，火」The text numbers the eight trigrams 1 to 8 and gives the element of each.
- 《梅花易數》「凡上下二卦無動爻者為體，有動爻者為用」The trigram without the moving line is the self; the trigram with it is the event.
- 《梅花易數》卷二 體用總訣「用生體，有進益之喜」·「體用比和，則百事順遂」·「體克用，諸事吉」·「體生用，有耗失之患」·「用克體，諸事凶」The text gives a verdict in words for each of the five relations, not a number. This site ranks the five verdicts as auspicious levels 5 to 1.
- 《梅花易數》卷二 占卜總決「應用生及比和，則吉；體生用及克體，則不吉」This section of the same text does not list the self overcoming the event among the auspicious relations, so the text is not consistent on this point.
- 《梅花易數》卷三「用為占之即應，互為中間之應，變為事占之終應」The hexagram from the four middle lines is the middle outcome, and the hexagram with the moving line flipped is the closing outcome.
- 《周易》 卦辭 · 爻辭The names, judgments and six line texts of all 64 hexagrams are quoted from the original, with translations by the lucky-number team following the commentary of 朱熹《周易本義》
- 十翼《序卦傳》·《雜卦傳》·《象傳》·《說卦傳》The meaning of each hexagram name, the image of each hexagram and the images of the trigrams are quoted from this set of commentaries, written later than the main text.
The text says nothing about bank account numbers. This page takes the digits of the bank account number in order and splits them into an upper and a lower part. With an odd number of digits, the upper part has one digit fewer. It is a modern adaptation, close to the section that casts from written characters split into an upper and a lower half. 「凡見字數如停勻，即平分一半為上卦，一半為下卦。如字數不勻，即少一字為上卦，取天輕清之義，以多一字為下卦，取地重濁之義。」
Examples in the text also add the hour of casting. This page adds no time, so the same number gives the same result every day, and the seasonal strength of the trigrams is not used.
The text itself says to use it flexibly, not rigidly: 「要在圓機，不可執」
Simple reading: the auspicious level is the site's ranking of the wording in the text. It is a symbolic reading, not a promise of luck.
About this tool
What casting a hexagram from a bank account number means
梅花易數 is a Chinese text that teaches casting a hexagram from numbers. The first number gives the upper trigram and the second gives the lower trigram. The two stacked make one of 64 hexagrams, and the total tells which of the six lines is the moving line.
This page borrows those steps for the digits of a bank account number and checks whether the elements of the self and event trigrams give rise to each other, overcome each other or are the same. The Chinese result here is always kept apart from the Thai result on the lucky bank account page.
Bank account numbers are often written with dashes in each bank's own pattern. Dashes and spaces make no difference to the hexagram. This page takes account numbers of 10 to 15 digits. The lucky bank account page instead shows the total and the last digit by Thai belief.
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Questions about the Chinese bank account system
How is this different from the lucky bank account page?
The lucky bank account page reads the account number by Thai belief. This page follows the casting steps of a Chinese text. The two systems are always shown apart and never merged into one score.
Which digits are used?
The digits of the account number in order, including the branch code. Dashes and spaces are not used. This page takes account numbers of 10 to 15 digits.
Do you keep the account number I enter?
No. The account number is worked out in your browser. It is not sent to this site, not put in the link and not kept in the tab. The input field is not sent with the form.