Line 5 九五 yang, undivided, of hexagram 31 咸 Xián
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
咸其脢，无悔。
The fifth line, undivided, shows one moving the flesh along the spine above the heart. There will be no occasion for repentance. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
咸其脢，志末也。
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.