Line 5 六五 yin, divided, of hexagram 62 小過 Xiǎo Guò
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
密雲不雨，自我西郊，公弋取彼在穴。
The fifth line, divided, (suggests the idea) of dense clouds, but no rain, coming from our borders in the west. It also (shows) the prince shooting his arrow, and taking the bird in a cave. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
密云不雨，已上也。
Where this line leads
Sources
- Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10643238); 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.