Line 3 九三 yang, undivided, of hexagram 37 家人 Jiā Rén
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
家人嗃嗃，悔厲吉；婦子嘻嘻，終吝。
The third line, undivided, shows its subject (treating) the members of the household with stern severity. There will be occasion for repentance, there will be peril, (but) there will (also) be good fortune. If the wife and children were to be smirking and chattering, in the end there would be occasion for regret. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
家人嗃嗃，未失也；婦子嘻嘻，失家節也。
Where this line leads
Sources
- Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 2405005); 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.