Line 3 九三 yang, undivided, of hexagram 44 姤 Gòu
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
臀无膚,其行次且,厲,无大咎。
The third line, undivided, shows one from whose buttocks the skin has been stripped so that he walks with difficulty. The position is perilous, but there will be no great error. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
其行次且,行未牽也。
Where this line leads
Sources
- Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10646826); 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.