Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 56 旅 Lǚ, The Traveller
  3. Line 5
56 旅, line 5

Line 5 六五 yin, divided, of hexagram 56 旅 Lǚ

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

射雉一矢亡,終以譽命。

shè zhì yī shǐ wáng, zhōng yǐ yù mìng.

The fifth line, divided, shows its subject shooting a pheasant. He will lose his arrow, but in the end he will obtain praise and a (high) charge. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

終以譽命,上逮也。

zhōng yǐ yù mìng, shàng dǎi yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10647234); 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.