Line 5 六五 yin, divided, of hexagram 56 旅 Lǚ
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
射雉一矢亡，終以譽命。
The fifth line, divided, shows its subject shooting a pheasant. He will lose his arrow, but in the end he will obtain praise and a (high) charge. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
終以譽命，上逮也。
Where this line leads
Sources
- Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10647234); 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.