Line 5 六五 yin, divided, of hexagram 32 恒 Héng
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
恆其德，貞，婦人吉，夫子凶。
The fifth line, divided, shows its subject continuously maintaining the virtue indicated by it. In a wife this will be fortunate; in a husband, evil. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
婦人貞吉，從一而終也。夫子制義，從婦凶也。
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.