Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 54 歸妹 Guī Mèi, The Marrying Sister
  3. Line 4
54 歸妹, line 4

Line 4 九四 yang, undivided, of hexagram 54 歸妹 Guī Mèi

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

歸妹愆期，遲歸有時。

guī mèi qiān qī, chí guī yǒu shí.

The fourth line, undivided, shows the younger sister who is to be married off protracting the time. She may be late in being married, but the time will come. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

愆期之志，有待而行也。

qiān qī zhī zhì, yǒu dài ér xíng yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10647182); 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.