Trigram for Fire

The Trigram for Fire at U+2632 is a symbolic character made of three horizontal lines, with a broken line between two solid lines, representing fire in the East Asian trigram system. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols block and is a printable sign rather than a letter or punctuation mark. Its main use is in the Eight Trigrams of the Yijing, or I Ching, where it is called Lí and is associated with fire, brightness, radiance, the south, and the middle daughter in traditional correspondences. In divination charts, feng shui diagrams, bagua maps, and commentaries on hexagrams, it marks the fire trigram as one of the building blocks used to form the sixty-four hexagrams. The symbol also appears in cultural, philosophical, and design contexts connected with Daoism, Chinese cosmology, Korean and Vietnamese traditions that use the trigrams, and martial arts or meditation materials. Outside those settings it is sometimes used decoratively for an “elemental fire” theme, but its specific meaning is the trigram Lí, not a generic flame icon.