Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 32 恒 Héng, Constancy
  3. Line 3
32 恒, line 3

Line 3 九三 yang, undivided, of hexagram 32 恒 Héng

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

不恆其德,或承之羞,貞吝。

bù héng qí dé, huò chéng zhī xiū, zhēn lìn.

The third line, undivided, shows one who does not continuously maintain his virtue. There are those who will impute this to him as a disgrace. However firm he may be, there will be ground for regret. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

不恆其德,无所容也。

bù héng qí dé, wú suǒ róng yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10646486); 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.