Line 1 初六 yin, divided, of hexagram 31 咸 Xián
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
咸其拇。
The first line, divided, shows one moving his great toes. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
咸其拇，志在外也。
Where this line leads
Sources
- Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10646450); 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.