Line 2 六二 yin, divided, of hexagram 39 蹇 Jiǎn
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
王臣蹇蹇，匪躬之故。
The second line, divided, shows the minister of the king struggling with difficulty on difficulty, and not with a view to his own advantage. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
王臣蹇蹇，終无尤也。
Where this line leads
Sources
- Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 2405036); 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.