Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 28 大過 Dà Guò, Great Excess
  3. Line 3
28 大過, line 3

Line 3 九三 yang, undivided, of hexagram 28 大過 Dà Guò

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

棟橈,凶。

dòng ráo, xiōng.

The third line, undivided, shows a beam that is weak. There will be evil. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

棟橈之凶,不可以有輔也。

dòng ráo zhī xiōng, bù kě yǐ yǒu fǔ yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645184); 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.