Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 16 豫 Yù, Gladness
  3. Line 5
16 豫, line 5

Line 5 六五 yin, divided, of hexagram 16 豫 Yù

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

貞疾,恆不死。

zhēn jí, héng bù sǐ.

The fifth line, divided, shows one with a chronic complaint, but who lives on without dying. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

六五貞疾,乘剛也。恆不死,中未亡也。

liù wǔ zhēn jí, chéng gāng yě. héng bù sǐ, zhōng wèi wáng yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645735); 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.