Line 3 九三 yang, undivided, of hexagram 32 恒 Héng
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
不恆其德,或承之羞,貞吝。
The third line, undivided, shows one who does not continuously maintain his virtue. There are those who will impute this to him as a disgrace. However firm he may be, there will be ground for regret. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
不恆其德,无所容也。
Where this line leads
Sources
- Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10646486); 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.