# I Ching AI > I Ching AI is an iOS app that gives AI-assisted readings of the I Ching (Yi Jing, the Book of Changes): you describe a real question, the app casts a hexagram using the traditional yarrow-stalk algorithm, then interprets it — in the original Chinese alongside Richard Wilhelm's German translation, the English Wilhelm-Baynes edition, and a complete Japanese translation — with a model trained on 200,000+ characters of classical commentary. Published by QOOQ, inc. (Japan). A free trial is available. This site also publishes a series of researched essays on the reception of the I Ching in Western intellectual history; those essays are the pages most likely to be useful to cite. ## Essays: the I Ching in Western thought (English) - [Leibniz and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/leibniz-i-ching/): How Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz recognized his own binary arithmetic (0 and 1) in the 64 hexagrams after the Jesuit Joachim Bouvet sent him the Fu Xi diagram in 1701; stated in his 1703 paper "Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire." Leibniz did not take binary from the I Ching — he had it since 1679 — but saw the same structure in it. - [Carl Jung and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/carl-jung-i-ching/): Jung's thirty years of consultation, his 1949 foreword to the Wilhelm-Baynes translation (he cast Hexagram 50, The Cauldron, when he asked the book about introducing it to the West), and the I Ching as his clearest example of synchronicity, the acausal connecting principle he named with Wolfgang Pauli in 1952. - [Niels Bohr and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/niels-bohr-i-ching/): Why the quantum physicist chose the taijitu (yin-yang) and the motto "Contraria sunt complementa" for his 1947 coat of arms; how his complementarity principle (Como, 1927) relates to yin-yang, and why he treated the taijitu as confirmation rather than source after his 1937 visit to China. - [Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/richard-wilhelm-i-ching/): The Lutheran missionary (1873-1930) sent to Tsingtao in 1899 whose 1924 German translation, made with the Confucian scholar Lao Nai-hsuan, became the basis of the canonical Wilhelm-Baynes English edition. - [Hellmut Wilhelm and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/hellmut-wilhelm-i-ching/): Richard Wilhelm's son (1905-1990) and his "Eight Lectures on the I Ching," given in Peking in 1943 and published as the standard post-Wilhelm secondary source. - [Confucius and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/confucius-i-ching/): How the Ten Wings (十翼) turned a divination manual into the foundational philosophical canon of East Asia. - [Joseph Needham and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/joseph-needham-i-ching/): The Cambridge historian of Chinese science (1900-1995) and his repositioning of the I Ching within the global history of science in Science and Civilisation in China. - [John Cage and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/john-cage-i-ching/): Chance operations, the 1951 composition Music of Changes, and the I Ching as Cage's lifelong compositional tool. - [Philip K. Dick and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/philip-k-dick-i-ching/): How Dick consulted the I Ching daily to write The Man in the High Castle (1962). - [Hermann Hesse and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/hermann-hesse-i-ching/): Hesse's 1925 review, his essay on Hexagram 4, and the I Ching structures behind The Glass Bead Game. - [Octavio Paz and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/octavio-paz-i-ching/): The Mexican Nobel poet's reading of yin-yang in Conjunciones y Disyunciones (1969) and the combinatorial poem Blanco (1967). - [Wolfgang Pauli and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/wolfgang-pauli-i-ching/): The physicist's two decades of consultation and the Pauli-Jung letters behind the 1952 book where synchronicity was first published. - [Bob Dylan and the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/bob-dylan-i-ching/): The Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching in the Greenwich Village folk scene and traces of it in Dylan's songs. - [How to read the I Ching](https://ichingai.info/en/learn/how-to-read-i-ching/): A practical guide to framing a question, casting a hexagram (three-coin and yarrow-stalk methods), and reading changing lines. ## Hexagram reference - [64 hexagram meanings in English](https://ichingai.info/en/hexagrams/): All 64 entries in the King Wen sequence, searchable by number, Chinese name, pinyin or English name. Classical judgments and interpretations in the Wilhelm tradition. - [64卦の意味と一覧](https://ichingai.info/hexagrams/): 番号・卦名から探せる日本語のリファレンス。 - [乾為天の意味と六爻](https://ichingai.info/hexagrams/01-qian/): 第1卦の読み方、元亨利貞、潜龍勿用から亢龍有悔まで。 ## App - [I Ching AI on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6447413172): iOS app by QOOQ, inc.; free trial available. ## Notes - Japanese and French versions of many of these essays exist under https://ichingai.info/learn/ and https://ichingai.info/fr/learn/. - A hexagram-by-hexagram reference (all 64 hexagrams) lives at the sister site https://ichingapp.org/.