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  3. Line 5
13 同人, line 5

Line 5 九五 yang, undivided, of hexagram 13 同人 Tóng Rén

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

同人，先號啕而後笑。大師克相遇。

tóng rén, xiān hào táo ér hòu xiào. dà shī kè xiāng yù.

In the fifth line, undivided, (the representative of) the union of men first wails and cries out, and then laughs. His great host conquers, and he (and the subject of the second line) meet together. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

同人之先，以中直也。大師相遇，言相克也。

tóng rén zhī xiān, yǐ zhōng zhí yě. dà shī xiāng yù, yán xiāng kè yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645635); the text is public domain, the site's edits CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East vol. XVI, Oxford 1882 (public domain).
  • Pinyin: Unihan (Unicode License v3) with this site's readings for the classical cases.