Line 4 九四 yang, undivided, of hexagram 28 大過 Dà Guò
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
棟隆，吉。有它吝。
The fourth line, undivided, shows a beam curving upwards. There will be good fortune. If (the subject of it) looks for other (help but that of line one), there will be cause for regret. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
棟隆之吉，不橈乎下也。
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.