Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 37 家人 Jiā Rén, The Household
  3. Line 6
37 家人, line 6

Line 6 上九 yang, undivided, of hexagram 37 家人 Jiā Rén

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

有孚威如,終吉。

yǒu fú wēi rú, zhōng jí.

The topmost line, undivided, shows its subject possessed of sincerity and arrayed in majesty. In the end there will be good fortune. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

威如之吉,反身之謂也。

wēi rú zhī jí, fǎn shēn zhī wèi yě.

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.