Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 38 睽 Kuí, Estrangement
  3. Line 3
38 睽, line 3

Line 3 六三 yin, divided, of hexagram 38 睽 Kuí

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

見輿曳，其牛𧤊，其人天且劓，无初有終。

jiàn yú yè, qí niú chè, qí rén tiān qiě yì, wú chū yǒu zhōng.

In the third line, divided, we see one whose carriage is dragged back, while the oxen in it are pushed back, and he is himself subjected to the shaving of his head and the cutting off of his nose. There is no good beginning, but there will be a good end. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

見輿曳，位不當也。无初有終，遇剛也。

jiàn yú yè, wèi bù dāng yě. wú chū yǒu zhōng, yù gāng yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10646622); 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.