Line 4 九四 yang, undivided, of hexagram 13 同人 Tóng Rén
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
乘其庸,弗克攻,吉。
The fourth line, undivided, (shows its subject) mounted on the city wall; but he does not proceed to make the attack (he contemplates). There will be good fortune. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
乘其庸,義弗克也,其吉,則困而反則也。
Where this line leads
Sources
- Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645635); 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.