Line 4 九四 yang, undivided, of hexagram 33 遯 Dùn
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
好遯君子吉，小人否。
The fourth line, undivided, shows its subject retiring notwithstanding his likings. In a superior man this will lead to good fortune; a small man cannot attain to this. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
君子好遯，小人否也。
Where this line leads
Sources
- Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645108); 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.