Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 9 小畜 Xiǎo Chù, Small Restraint
  3. Line 3
9 小畜, line 3

Line 3 九三 yang, undivided, of hexagram 9 小畜 Xiǎo Chù

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

車說輹,夫妻反目。

chē tuō fù, fū qī fǎn mù.

The third line, undivided, suggests the idea of a carriage, the strap beneath which has been removed, or of a husband and wife looking on each other with averted eyes. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

夫妻反目,不能正室也。

fū qī fǎn mù, bù néng zhèng shì yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645530); 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.