Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 13 同人 Tóng Rén, Fellowship
  3. Line 4
13 同人, line 4

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。

chéng qí yōng, fú kè gōng, jí.

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。

chéng qí yōng, yì fú kè yě, qí jí, zé kùn ér fǎn zé yě.

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.