Tool 12 · Chinese system · 梅花易數
Lucky license plate check
by the Chinese system
Cast a hexagram from the digits on a license plate, 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. The letters on the plate are not used, and no birth date is needed.
Simple reading: the hexagram is cast from the digits on the plate. The text 梅花易數 says nothing about license plates. Using it on a license plate is a modern adaptation.
Plate 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 license plates.
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 1กข 1234
Plate cast 1กข 1234
Hexagram 43 夬
Guai (夬) means to decide.
「夬者決也。」 《序卦傳》
What this hexagram is about
Guai (夬) is about deciding: the firm decides the yielding. The lower trigram 乾 (heaven) lies beneath the upper trigram 兌 (lake), an image of the lake above the sky, which the Tuan Zhuan (《彖傳》) explains as strong and joyful, deciding yet harmonious. The text describes proclaiming in the king's court and calling out with trust, with danger; it is not beneficial to go to arms, yet beneficial to have somewhere to go. The Xiang Zhuan (《象傳》) has the noble person bestow emoluments on those below.
Commentary on the hexagram in 《彖傳》
夬，決也，剛決柔也。健而說，決而和，揚于王庭，柔乘五剛也。孚號有厲，其危乃光也。告自邑，不利即戎，所尚乃窮也。利有攸往，剛長乃終也。
Guai (夬) means to decide; the firm decides the yielding. Strong and joyful, deciding yet harmonious. Proclaiming in the king's court: the yielding rides upon five firm lines. Calling out with trust; there is danger: its jeopardy then becomes radiant. Reporting from the city; not beneficial to go to arms: what is valued then comes to exhaustion. Beneficial to have somewhere to go: the firm grows and then reaches its end.
Auspicious level 4 of 5
比和 Metal, the same element as the self
The text rates this relation as 「百事順遂」 meaning all matters go smoothly
Upper and lower trigrams
Upper trigram · 體 the self用 the event
兌 Duì
澤 · 說 Lake · joyful
Element: Metal
Lower trigram · 體 the self用 the event
乾 Qián
天 · 健 Heaven · strong
Element: Metal
Image and quality of each trigram as given in 《說卦傳》
Moving line line 5 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
揚于王庭，孚號，有厲，告自邑，不利即戎，利有攸往。
Proclaiming in the king's court; calling out with trust; there is danger; reporting from the city; not beneficial to go to arms; beneficial to have somewhere to go.
Original wording of the 《周易》 It does not speak of license plates.
Image of the hexagram 《象傳》
澤上于天，夬；君子以施祿及下，居德則忌。
The lake is above the sky: Guai (夬). The noble person, taking this as a model, bestows emoluments on those below; dwelling on virtue is to be shunned.
Text of line 5 (the moving line)
九五 「莧陸夬夬，中行无咎。」
Purslane (莧陸), extremely decisive; proceeding in the middle, no blame.
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 1 乾
Qian (乾) is firm, Kun (坤) is yielding; Bi (比) is joyful, Shi (師) is anxious.
- Upper trigram 乾 Metal, the same element as the self
- Lower trigram 乾 Metal, the same element as the self
變卦 · closing outcome
Hexagram 34 大壯
Da Zhuang (大壯) is to halt; Dun (遯) is to retreat.
- Changed trigram 震 the self's Metal overcomes Wood
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 license plates. This page takes the digits of the license plate 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 license plate 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 license plate 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 license plate page.
A Thai license plate has a letter group, sometimes with a digit in front, followed by the plate number. This page uses the digits on the plate in the order they appear, and foreign plates work too. The letters on the plate are not used. The lucky license plate page instead reads the plate total against your birth date by Thaksa.
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Questions about the Chinese license plate system
How is this different from the lucky license plate page?
The lucky license plate page uses Thaksa and Thai numerology. 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 on the plate are used?
The digits on the plate in order, including a digit before the letters. For example, 1กข 1234 uses 11234. The letters and the province are not used. A plate with fewer than 2 digits cannot be cast.
Do you keep the plate I enter?
No. The plate is worked out in your browser. It is not sent to this site, not put in the link and not kept in the tab.