Equal, PEI: on the same level; compete with; accord with; pair; husband or wife; together.
16.PW Using equaling grandfathers and predecessors.
55.1a Meeting one’s equal lord.
Eradicate, BA: pull up, root out, extirpate; extricate from difficulties; elevate, promote.
11.1a Eradicating thatch-grass intertwisted.
11.1b Eradicating thatch-grass: disciplining, significant.
12.1a Eradicating thatch-grass intertwisted.
12.1b Eradicating thatch-grass: Trial, significant.
Escape, PU: flee, run away, turn tail; deserter, fugitive. Ideogram: go and first, precipitous flight.
6.2a Converting and-also escaping from one’s capital.
6.2b Converting, escaping: skulking indeed.
Escort, WEI: accompany, protect, defend, restrain; guard of honor; military outpost.
26.3a Named: enclosing the cart, escorting.
Establish, LI: set up, institute, order, arrange; stand erect; settled principles.
28.PW A jun zi uses solitary establishing not to fear.
32.PW A jun zi uses establishing, not versatility on all sides.
42.6a Establishing the heart, no persevering.
59.PW The earlier kings used presenting tending-towards the supreme to establish the temples.
Evade, MIAN: avoid, escape from, get away; be free of, dispense with; remove from office. Ideogram: a hare, known for its evasive skill.
40.IT Stirring-up and-also evading reaching venturing. Unraveling.
Evaluate, CHENG: assess, appraise; weigh, estimate, reckon; designate, name. Ideogram: weigh and grain, attributing value.
15.PW And evaluating the beings to even spreading.
57.AT The root: evaluating and-also occulting.
Even, PING: level, flatten, equalize; balanced, regular; uniform, peaceful, tranquil; restore quiet, harmonize.
11.3a Without evening, not unevening.
15.PW And evaluating the beings to even spreading.
20.6b Purpose not-yet evened indeed.
29.5a Merely already evened.
31.IT The wise person influences people’s heart and-also below heaven harmonizes evenness.
Even-more, KUANG: even more so, all the more.
16.IT And-also even-more installing feudatories to move legions reached.
55.IT And-also even-more with-respect-to reaching people.
55.IT Even-more with-respect-to reaching soul and spirit.
Evidence, CI: word, expression; verbal explanation; excuse; instruction, order, argument; apology.
42.6b One-sided evidence indeed.
Exalting worship, YIN JIAN: superlative of worship; glorify; intensify feelings of praise and awe.
16.PW Exhalting worship’s supreme above.
Exceed, GUO: go beyond, pass by, pass over; surpass, transgress; error, fault, calamity.
This term occurs in the name of hexagrams 28 and 62 and recurs throughout their texts. It also occurs in:
16.IT Anterior sun and moon not exceeding.
27.HP The great exceeding: toppling indeed.
29.PS Beings not permitted to use completing exceeding.
40.PW A jun zi uses forgiving excess to pardon offenses.
42.PW And possessing excess, by consequence amending.
55.1b Exceeding a decade: calamity indeed.
61.HP The small exceeding: excess indeed.
63.PS Beings possessing excess implies necessarily fording.
Excellence, JIA: superior quality; fine, beautiful, glorious; happy, pleased; rejoice in, praise.
17.5a/5b Conformity tends-towards excellence. Significant.
30.6a Possessing excellence.
33.5a/5b Excellent retiring, Trial, significant.
49.2b Moving possesses excellence indeed.
Exhaust, QIONG: bring to an end; limit, extremity; investigate exhaustively; destitute, indigent; end without a new beginning; distinct from complete, ZHONG, end of a cycle that begins the next one. Ideogram: cave and naked person, bent with disease or old age.
2.6b Their dao exhausted indeed.
3.3b A jun zi stowing it: going, abashment, exhaustion indeed.
5.IT One’s righteousness not confined nor exhausted actually.
8.IT One’s dao exhausted indeed.
16.1b Purpose exhausted, pitfall indeed.
17.6b Above exhausted indeed.
19.PW A jun zi uses teaching to ponder without exhausting.
24.PS Stripping exhausted above, reversing below.
25.6b Exhaustion’s calamity indeed.
34.1b One’s conformity exhausted indeed.
38.PS Household’s dao exhausted, necessarily turning-away.
39.IT One’s dao exhausted indeed.
43.IT The place to honor thereupon exhausted indeed.
44.6b Above exhausting abashment indeed.
47.AT Confining: exhausting and-also interpenetrating.
47.IT Honoring the mouth thereupon exhausted indeed.
48.IT The well: nourishing and-also not exhausted indeed.
53.IT Stirring-up not exhausted indeed.
56.PS Exhausting the great implies necessarily letting-go one’s residing.
56.1b Purpose exhausted: calamity indeed.
57.3b Purpose exhausted indeed.
57.6b Above exhaustion indeed.
59.IT The solid comes and-also not exhausted.
60.6b One’s dao exhausted indeed.
63/64.HP Not-yet fording: manhood’s exhaustion indeed.
63.IT One’s dao exhausted indeed.
64.PS Beings not permitted exhausting indeed.
Expel, PI: cast out, repress, exclude, punish; exclusionary laws and their enforcement. Ideogram: punish, authority and mouth, giving order to expel.
12.PW A jun zi uses parsimonious actualizing-dao to expel heaviness.
30.1b/1b Using expelling fault indeed.
Explicate, JIANG: explain, unfold, narrate; converse, speak; plan, discuss. Ideogram: speech and crossing beams, speech blending harmoniously.
58.PW A jun zi uses partnering with friends to explicate repeatedly.
Exposure, WEI: being exposed to danger; precipitous, unsteady, too high, dangerously leaning. Ideogram: overhanging rock, person and limit, exposure in an extreme position.
43.IT One’s exposure thereupon shining indeed.
51.5b Exposing movement indeed.
52.3b Exposure smothers the heart indeed.
Extend, JI: reach to; draw out, prolong; continuous, enduring.
27.IT The wise person nourishes eminence used to extend to the myriad commoners.
43.PW A jun zi uses spreading benefits extending to the below.
44.2b Righteously not extending hospitality indeed.
61.IT Trustworthiness extends to hog fish indeed.
62.2a/2b Not extending to one’s chief.
Extinguish, WANG: ruin, destroy; cease, go, die; lost without trace; forget, out of mind; absence, exile. Ideogram: person concealed by a wall, out of sight.
See also: Repenting extinguished 11.2a Partnering extinguished.
12.5a Its extinction, its extinction.
16.5b The center not-yet extinguished indeed.
38.6b The flock, doubt extinguished indeed.
56.5a One arrow extinguishing.
61.4a/4b The horse team extinguished.
Extol, CHONG: praise, honor, magnify, revere, worship; eminent, lofty.
16.PW The earlier kings used arousing delight to extol actualizing-dao.
Eye, MU: eye and vision; look, see, glance, observe.
9.3a/3b Husband and consort reversing the eyes.
50.IT The root and-also the ear and the eye: understanding bright.
Face, MIAN: visage, countenance, outer expression of the heart; honor, character, reputation; front, surface; face to face.
49.6a/6b The small in the person skins the face.
Fade, RUO: lose strength or freshness, wither, wane: fragile, feeble, weak.
28.IT Base and tip fading indeed.
Fall, XIAN: fall down or into, sink, drop, descend; pit, trap, fault; falling water; Action of the trigram Gorge, KAN.
5.IT Solid persisting and-also not falling.
29.PS Gorge implies falling indeed.
30.PS Falling necessarily possesses a place to congregate.
Far-away, DI: far, remote; send away, exile.
59.6a Departing far-away.
Fate, MING: individual destiny; birth and death as limits of life; issue orders with authority; consult the gods.
Ideogram: mouth and order, words with heavenly authority.
1.IT Each correcting innate fate.
6.4a/4b Returning, approaching fate.
7.2a/2b The king thrice bestows fate.
7.6a/6b The great in the chief possesses fate.
11.6a Originating from the capital, notifying fate.
11.6b One’s fate disarrayed indeed.
12.4a/4b Possessing fate, without fault.
14.PW And yielding to heaven to relax into fate.
19.2b Not-yet yielding to fate indeed.
25.IT Heaven’s fate indeed.
25.IT Heavenly fate not shielding.
35.1b Not-yet acquiescing in fate indeed.
44.PW The crown prince uses spreading fate to command the four sides.
44.5b Purpose: not stowing away fate indeed.
45.IT Yielding to heaven’s fate indeed.
47.PW A jun zi uses involving in fate to release purpose.
49.4a Amending fate, significant.
49.4b Amending fate’s signficance.
49.IT Redressing martially, skinning fate.
50.PW A jun zi uses correcting the position to solidify fate.
56.5a/5b Completion uses praising fate.
57.PW A jun zi uses assigning fate to move affairs.
57.IT Redoubled root uses assigning fate.
Father, FU: father, act as a father, paternal, patriarchal; authoritative rule. Ideogram: hand and rod, the chastising father.
18.1a/1b/3a/3b/5a Managing the father’s decay.
18.4a/4b Enriching the father’s decay.
18.5b Managing the father avails of praise.
31.PS Therefore afterwards possessing father and son.
31.PS Possessing father and son.
37.IT Father and mother’s designation.
37.IT The father, a father. The son, a son.
Fault, JIU: unworthy conduct that leads to harm, illness, misfortune; guilt, crime, punishment. Ideogram: person and differ, differ from what you should be.
See also: Without fault
7.IT Significant, furthermore is it actually faulty?
9.1a Is it one’s fault?
13.1b Furthermore whose fault indeed?
14.1a In-no-way faulty.
17.4a Is it faulty?
18.3a Without the great, faulty.
19.3b Fault not long-living indeed.
28.6b Not permitted fault indeed.
30.1b Using expelling fault indeed.
34.6b Fault not long-living indeed.
38.1b Using expelling fault indeed.
38.5a Going, is it faulty?
40.3b Furthermore whose fault indeed?
43.1a Going, not mastering: activating fault.
43.1b Fault indeed.
44.3a Without the great: faulty.
53.1a Lacking fault.
60.3b Furthermore whose fault indeed?
Favor, CHONG: receive or confer gifts; obtain grace, win favor; dote on a woman; affection, benevolence towards a subordinate.
7.2b Receiving heavenly favor indeed.
23.5a/5b Using house people’s favor.
Fear, JU: afraid, apprehensive; stand in awe of; intimidate.
28.PW A jun zi uses solitary establishing not to fear.
51.PW A jun zi uses anxiety and fear to adjust inspections.
51.IT Scaring the distant and-also fearing the nearby indeed.
Feast, KAN: take part in or give a feast; rejoice, give pleasure; contented, at ease.
53.2a/2b Drinking and taking-in: feasting, feasting.
Feathers, YOU: plumes, wings; feathered; flying.
53.6a Its feathers permit availing of activating the fundamentals.
53.6b Its feathers permit availing of activating the fundamentals, significant.
Feed, KUI: nourish, prepare and present food; provisions.
37.2a Located in the center, feeding.
Female, PIN: female animal; female sexual organs, particularly of farm animals; concave, hollow. Ideogram: cattle and ladle, a hollow, reproductive organ.
2.IM Space. Spring, Growing, Harvesting, female horse’s Trial.
2.IT The female horse: to the earth sorted.
30.IM Growing. Accumulating female cattle.
30.IT That uses accumulating female cattle, significant indeed.
Fetter, ZHI: tie, manacle; restrain and hinder movement, clog wheels; impede.
4.1a Availing of stimulating shackles to fetter.
Feudatory, HOU: noble entrusted with governing a province; in charge of executive tasks; distinct from prince, GONG, representative of the central decisional power at the court.
3.IM/1a Harvesting: installing feudatories.
3.IT Proper installing feudatories and-also not soothing.
8.PW The earlier kings used installing a myriad cities to connect the related feudatories.
16.IM Harvesting: installing feudatories, moving legions.
16.IT And-also even-more installing feudatories to move legions reached.
18.6a/6b Not affairs, a king’s feudatory.
35.IM Prospering. A content feudatory avails of bestowing horses to enhance the multitudes.
35.IT That uses a content feudatory availing of bestowing horses to enhance the multitudes.
Few, GUA: small number; seldom; reduce, diminish; unsupported, solitary.
9/10.HP The small accumulating: few indeed.
15.PW A jun zi uses reducing the numerous to augment the few.
47.AT Confining: using few grudges.
55/56.HP Connecting with few: sojourning indeed.
Fiefdom, BANG: region governed by a feudatory.
7.2b Cherishing the myriad fiefdoms indeed.
7.6b Necessarily disarraying the fiefdoms indeed.
12.IT Above and below not mingling and-also below heaven without fiefdoms indeed.
30.6b Using correcting the fiefdoms indeed.
39.IT Using the correct fiefdoms indeed.
53.IT Permitted to use correcting the fiefdoms indeed.
61.IT Thereupon changing the fiefdoms indeed.
Field, TIAN: cultivated land, farming land; preferred terrain for hunting, since game in the fields cannot escape the hunt. Ideogram: square divided into four sections, delineating fields.
1.2a/2b Viewing a dragon located in the fields.
7.5a The fields possess wildfowl.
32.4a The fields without wildfowl.
40.2a The fields, capturing three foxes.
57.4a/4b The fields: capturing three kinds.
Field-altar, SHE: altar; sacrifices to spirits of place; village, with a common god and field-altar.
51.IT Emerging permits using guarding the ancestral temple, the field-altar, the offertory-millet.
Fine, LIANG: excellent, refined, valuable; gentle, considerate, kind; natural.
26.3a A fine horse, pursuing.
54.5a/5b Not thus fine one’s junior-sister’s sleeves.
Fire, HUO: fire, flame, burn; warming and consuming aspect of burning; fire and brightness are the Symbols of the trigram Radiance, LI.
13.PW Heaven associated with fire. Concording people.
14.PW Fire located above heaven. Great possessing.
22.PW The mountain possesses fire below. Adorning.
37.PW Wind originating from fire emerging. Household people.
38.PW Fire above, pond below. Polarizing.
38.IT Fire stirring-up and-also above.
49.PW The pond in the center possesses fire. Skinning.
49.IT Skinning. Stream and fire reciprocally giving pause.
50.PW Wood possesses fire above. The vessel.
50.IT Using wood, the root, fire.
56.PW The mountain possesses fire above. Sojourning.
63.PW Stream located above fire. Already fording.
64.PW Fire located above stream. Not-yet fording.
Firm, GU: steady, solid, strong, secure; constant, fixed. Ideogram: old and enclosure, long preserved.
25.4b Firmly possessing it indeed.
32.AT Persevering: actualizing-dao’s firmness indeed.
33.2b Firm purpose indeed.
42.3b Firmly possessing it indeed.
Fish, YU: all scaly aquatic beings hidden in the water; symbol of abundance; connected with the Streaming Moment.
See also: Hog fish
23.5a Threading fish.
44.2a/2b Enwrapping possesses fish.
44.4a Enwrapping without fish.
44.4b Without fish’s pitfall.
Five, WU: number five; fivefold articulation of the Universal Compass; the Five Moments and all related qualities: directions, colors, smells, tastes, tones, feelings.
16.5b Six at fifth: Trial, affliction.
22.5b Six at fifth’s significance.
26.5b Six at fifth’s significance.
30.5b Six at fifth’s significance.
41.5b Six at fifth: Spring, significant.
43.IT The supple rides five solids indeed.
44.5b Nine at fifth: containing composition.
55.5b Six at fifth’s significance.
57.5b Nine at fifth’s significance.
Flee, BEN: run away; urgent, hurried; bustle, confusion; marry without rites. Ideogram: three oxen and fright, a stampede.
59.2a/2b Dispersing: fleeing one’s bench.
Flesh, FU: skin, muscles and organs as different from bones.
21.2a/2b Gnawing flesh, submerging the nose.
23.4a/4b Stripping the bed, using the flesh.
38.5a/5b Your ancestor gnawing flesh.
43.4a The sacrum without flesh.
44.3a The sacrum without flesh.
Flock, QUN: herd, group; people of the same kind, friends, equals; crowd, multitude; move in unison, flock together. Ideogram: chief and sheep, flock around a leader.
1.7a Viewing a flock of dragons without head.
12.2b Not disarraying the flock indeed.
38.6b The flock, doubt extinguished indeed.
53.3b Radiating a flock of demons indeed.
59.4a/4b Dispersing one’s flock: Spring, significant.
Flog, FA: punish with blows, beat, whip; used to find out the truth in judicial proceedings.
16.IT By consequence punishing flogging purifies and-also the commoners submit.
21.PW The earlier kings used brightness in flogging to enforce the laws.
Flow, LIAN: move like ripples spreading on water; running tears.
3.6a/6b Weeping, blood flowing thus.
Flower, HUA: symbol of beauty, elegance, abundance, culture and literature as blooming of the human mind; splendid, noble.
28.5a/5b A withered willow generates flowers.
Flutter, PIAN: fly or run about; bustle, fussy. Ideogram: young bird leaving the nest.
11.4a Fluttering, fluttering.
11.4b Fluttering, fluttering, not affluence.
Fly, FEI: rise in the air, spread one’s wings, fly away; let fly; swift.
1.5a/5b Flying dragon located in heaven.
36.1a Brightness hidden tends-towards flying.
62.IM The flying bird abandoning’s sound.
62.1a/1b The flying bird: using a pitfall.
62.6a The flying bird’s radiance’s pitfall.
62.IT Possessing the flying bird’s symbol in-truth.
62.IT The flying bird abandoning’s sound.
Follow, SUI: step behind, come after, move in the same direction; comply with what is ahead; pursue; follow a way or religion; conform to; next, subsequent. Ideogram: go and fall, unavoidable movement.
This term is the name of hexagram 17 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
18.PS Using joy in following people implies necessarily possessing affairs.
18.HP Following: without anteriority indeed.
31.3a Holding-on to one’s following.
31.3b Purpose located in following people.
52.2a/2b Not rescuing one’s following.
57.PW Following winds. The root.
Foot, ZHI: foot, footprint; foundation, base; walk; stop where the foot rests.
See also: Afoot, Foot-cutting 21.1a/1b Shoes locked-up, submerged feet.
22.1a Adorning one’s feet.
34.1a/1b Vigor tends-towards the feet.
43.1a The vigor tends-towards the preceding foot.
50.1a/1b The vessel: toppling the foot.
52.1a/1b The bound: one’s feet.
Foot-cutting, YUEH: crippling punishment for serious crimes.
47.5a/5b Nose-cut, foot-cut.
Ford, JI: cross a river at a ford or shallow place; embark on a course of action; complete, finish, succeed; help, relieve. Ideogram: water and level, running smooth over a flat bottom.
This term occurs in the name of hexagrams 63 and 64 and recurs throughout their texts. It also occurs in:
15.IT Heavenly dao: below fording and-also shining brightness.
Forest, LIN: woods, wilderness; area with no mark of human civilization; fourth of the territorial zones: city, suburbs, countryside, forest.
3.3a Thinking of entering tending-towards the forest’s center.
Forget, WANG: escape the mind; leave undone, disregard, neglect. Ideogram: heart and lost.
58.IT The commoners forget their toil.
58.IT The commoners forget their death.
Forgive, SHE: pardon, excuse, absolve, pass over, reprieve.
40.PW A jun zi uses forgiving excess to pardon offenses.
Form, XING: shape, bodily or material appearance; aspect, configuration, circumstance.
1.IT The kinds of beings diffuse in forms.
50.4a One’s form soiled, pitfall.
Foundation, JI: base of wall or building; ground, root, basis, starting point; establish.
10.AT Treading: actualizing-dao’s foundation indeed.
Four, SI: number four; number of the cardinal directions and of the seasons; everywhere, on all sides; fourfold articulation of the Universal Compass.
16.IT And-also the four seasons not straying.
20.IT And-also the four seasons not straying.
22.4b Six at fourth. An appropriate position to doubt indeed.
26.4b Six at fourth: Spring, significant.
30.PW The great in the person uses consecutive brightening to illuminate tending-towards the four sides.
32.IT The four seasons: transforming changes and-also enabling lasting and accomplishing.
36.6b Illuminating the four cities indeed.
44.PW The crown prince uses spreading fate to command the four sides.
49.IT Heaven and earth skinning and-also the four seasons accomplishing.
58.4b Nine at fourth’s joy.
60.IT Heaven and earth articulating and-also the four seasons accomplishing.
Fox, HU: crafty, shape-changing animal; used by spirits, often female; ambivalent night-spirit that can create havoc and bestow abundance.
40.2a The fields, capturing three foxes.
64.IM/ IT The small fox in a muddy ford.
Fragment, SUO: break into small pieces; broken parts; minute, fine, petty, trivial. Ideogram: small and cowry shells, the tinkling of small coins.
56.1a/1b Sojourning: fragmenting, fragmenting.
Friend, YOU: companion, associate; of the same mind; attached, in pairs. Ideogram: two hands joined.
41.3a By consequence acquiring one’s friend.
58.PW A jun zi uses partnering with friends to explicate repeatedly.
Frighten, XI: feel or provoke fear, alarm, terror, awe.
51.IM/1a/1b/ IT The shake comes: frightening, frightening.
Frost, SHUANG: frozen dew, hoar-frost; severe, frigid.
2.1a Treading frost, hard ice as culmination.
2.1b Treading frost, hard ice.
Froth, MO: spume, foam, bubbles; perspire, drool.
55.3a The sun in the center: viewing froth.
Fruit, GUO: tree fruit; fruition, fruit of action; result, effect, product, conclusion; reliable, decisive. Ideogram: tree topped by a round fruit.
4.PW A jun zi uses the fruits of move -ment to nurture actualizing-dao.
23.6a The ripe fruit not taken-in.
40.IT Thunder and rain arousing and-also the hundred fruits, grasses, trees, altogether seedburst’s boundary.
Full, WANG: moon directly facing the sun; 15th day of the lunar month; hopes, expectations, desires.
9.6a The moon almost full.
54.5a The moon almost full, significant.
61.4a The moon almost full.
Fundamentals, YI: basic components, essentials; correct, proper, just; rule, rite, etiquette; paired, matched.
Ideogram: person and righteous.
53.6a Its feathers permit availing of activating the fundamentals.
53.6b Its feathers permit availing of activating the fundamentals, significant.
Furthermore, YOU: moreover; in addition to; again.
7.IT Significant, furthermore is it actually faulty?
13.1b Furthermore whose fault indeed?
40.3b Furthermore whose fault indeed?
49.3b Furthermore is it actually?
60.3b Furthermore whose fault indeed?
Garden, YUAN: enclosed garden; park, yard; imperial tombs.
22.5a Adorning tends-towards a hill-top garden.
Gate, MEN: outer door, between courtyard and street; family, sect; a text or master as gate to a school of thought.
13.1a Concording people tend-towards the gate.
13.1b Emerging from the gate concording people.
16.AT Redoubling gates, smiting clappers.
17.1a/1b Emerging from the gate, mingling possesses achievement.
36.4a Tending-towards emerging from the gate chambers.
60.2a Not emerging from the gate chambers.
60.2b Not emerging from the gate chambers, pitfall.
Geld, FEN: castrate a male pig; deprive, take out.
26.5a A gelded pig’s tusks.
Generate, SHENG: give birth; be born, arise, grow; beget; life, vitality. Ideogram: earth and sprout.
2.IT The myriad beings’ own generation.
3.PS Therefore afterwards the myriad beings’ generation in-truth.
3.PS Sprouting implies the beginning of beings’ generation indeed.
3.IT Solid and supple begin to mingle and-also in heaviness generate.
4.PS Beings’ generation necessarily enveloped.
20.3a/3b Overseeing my generation: advancing, withdrawing.
20.5a/5b Overseeing my generation.
20.6a/6b Overseeing one’s generation.
28.2a A withered willow generates a sprig.
28.5a/5b A withered willow generates flowers.
31.IT Heaven and earth influence and-also the myriad beings change and generate.
42.IT Heaven spreads, earth generates.
46.PW The earth’s center generates wood. Ascending.
Generous, HONG: liberal, munificent; large, vast, expanded; give or share willingly; develop fully.
2.IT Containing generosity: the shine of the great.
Giggle, XI: laugh or titter uncontrollably; merriment, delight, surprise; foolish.
37.3a/3b The wife, the son, giggling, giggling.
Glare, DAN: stare intensely; obstruct, prevent. Ideogram: look and hesitate, staring without acting.
27.4a A tiger observing: glaring, glaring.
Gnaw, SHI: chew, bite persistently, bite away; snap at, nibble; reach the essential by removing the unnecessary. Ideogram: mouth and divination, revealing the essential.
This term occurs in the name of hexagram 21 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
22.HP Gnawing and biting: taking-in indeed.
38.5a/5b Your ancestor gnawing flesh.
Go, WANG: move away in time or space, depart; become past; dead, gone; contrasts with come, LAI, approach in time or space.
See also: Possessing directed going
3.3a Going, abashment.
3.3b A jun zi stowing it: going, abashment, exhaustion indeed.
3.4a Going, significant.
3.4b Seeking and-also going.
4.1a Using going: abashment.
5.IT Going possesses achievement indeed.
9.IT Honoring going indeed.
10.1a Sheer treading: going.
10.1b Sheer treading’s going.
11.IM The small going, the great coming.
11.3a/3b Without going, not returning.
11.IT The small going, the great coming: significance Growing.
12.IM/ IT The great going, the small coming.
18.4a Going, viewing abashment.
18.4b Going, not-yet acquiring indeed.
18.IT Going possesses affairs indeed.
25.1a Going, significant.
25.1b/ IT Without entanglement’s going.
26.PW A jun zi uses the numerous recorded preceding words to go and move.
29.IT Movement possesses honor. Going possesses achievement indeed.
31.3a Going, abashment.
31.4a/4b Wavering, wavering: going, coming.
33.1b Not going, is it a calamity indeed?
34.4b Honoring going indeed.
35.5a Going significant, without not Harvesting.
35.5b Going possesses reward indeed.
38.5a Going, is it faulty?
38.5b Going possesses reward indeed.
38.6a Going meets rain, by consequence significant.
39.1a/1b Going limping, coming praise.
39.3a/3b Going limping, coming reversal.
39.4a/4b Going limping, coming continuity.
39.6a Going limping, coming ripeness. Significant.
39.6b Going limping, coming ripeness.
39.IT Going acquires the center indeed.
39.IT Going possesses achievement indeed.
40.IM Without a place to go:
40.IT Going acquires crowds indeed.
40.IT Going possesses achievement indeed.
41.1a/1b Climaxing affairs, swiftly going.
43.1a Going, not mastering: activating fault.
43.1b Not mastering and-also going.
43.3a Solitary going, meeting rain.
45.1a/3a/3b Going, without fault.
48.IM Going, coming: welling, welling.
51.5a/5b The shake going and coming, adversity.
53.IT Going possesses achievement indeed.
55.1a Going possesses honor.
55.2a Going acquires doubt, affliction.
60.5a Going possesses honor.
62.4a/4b Going: adversity necessarily a warning.
Goat, YANG: sheep and goats; associated with stubborn, determined thought and action.
See also: He-goat
34.5a/5b Losing the goat, tending-towards versatility.
43.4a Hauling-along the goat, repenting extinguished.
54.6a A scholar disembowels a goat without blood.
Gorge, KAN: precipice, dangerous place; hole, cavity, pit, snare, trap, grave; critical time, test; risky. Ideogram: earth and cavity.
This term is the name of hexagram 29 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
30.HP The radiance above and-also the gorge below indeed.
Grains, GU: cereal crops, corn; income; substantial, prosperous, bless with plenty.
30.IT The hundred grains, grasses, trees congregating reaching the earth.
Grandfather, ZU: second ancestor generation; deceased grandfather, honored more than actual father.
16.PW Using equaling grandfathers and predecessors.
62.2a Exceeding one’s grandfather.
Grandmother, BI: second ancestor generation; deceased grandmother, venerated as source of her many descendants.
62.2a Meeting one’s grandmother.
Grapple, JU: grasp and detain; restrain, attach to, hook; stubborn, firm.
17.6a/6b Grappling ties to it.
Grasp, QU: seize with effort, take and use, appropriate; take as a wife; grasp the meaning, understand. Ideogram: ear and hand, hear and grasp.
4.3a/3b No availing of grasping womanhood.
8.5b Stowing away revolt, grasping yielding.
16.AT Surely grasping relates to providing.
31.IM Grasping womanhood, significant.
31.IT Grasping womanhood, significant indeed.
44.IM/ IT No availing of grasping womanhood.
49/50.HP The vessel: grasping renewal indeed.
56.1a Splitting-off one’s place: grasping calamity.
62.5a A prince’s string-arrow grasps someone located in a cave.
Grass, CAO: all grassy plants and herbs; young, tender plants; rough draft; hastily.
See also: Thatch-grass
3.IT Heaven creates grasses’ duskiness.
30.IT The hundred grains, grasses, trees congregating reaching the earth.
40.IT Thunder and rain arousing and-also the hundred fruits, grasses, trees, altogether seedburst’s boundary.
Great, DA: big, noble, important, very; orient the will toward a self-imposed goal, impose direction; ability to lead or guide one’s life; contrasts with small, XIAO, flexible adaptation to what crosses one’s path.
See also: Wading the great river This term occurs in the names of hexagrams 14, 26, 28 and 34 and recurs throughout their texts. It also occurs in:
1.2a/5a Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
1.5b The great in the person creative indeed.
1.IT The great: in-fact energy’s Spring.
1.IT The great brightening completes the beginning.
1.IT Protection: uniting with the great’s harmony.
2.2a Straightening on all sides: the great.
2.3b Knowing the shine of the great indeed.
2.7b Using the great for completion indeed.
2.IT Containing generosity: the shine of the great.
3.1b The great acquires the commoners indeed.
3.5a The great: Trial, pitfall.
3.IT The great: Growing, Trial.
5.6b Although not an appropriate position, not-yet the great letting-go indeed.
6.IM/ IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
7.3b The great without achievement indeed.
7.6a/6b The great in the chief possesses fate.
10.3a/3b Martial people activate tending-towards the great in the chief.
10.6b The great possesses reward indeed.
11.IM The small going, the great coming.
11.2b Using the shining great indeed.
11.IT The small going, the great coming: significance Growing.
12.IM/IT The great going, the small coming.
12.2a/2b The great in the person obstructed.
12.5a The great in the person, significant.
12.5b The great in the person’s significance.
13.HP Great possessing: crowds indeed.
13.5a/5b Great legions control the reciprocal meeting.
15.PS Possessing the great implies: not permitted using overfilling.
16.PS Possessing the great and-also enabling humbleness necessarily provides.
16.4a The great possesses acquiring.
16.4b Antecedent providing, the great possesses acquiring.
16.4b Purpose: the great moving indeed.
16.IT Providing’s season righteously great actually in-fact.
17.IT The great Growing, Trial, without fault.
17.IT Following’s season righteously great actually in-fact.
18.3a Without the great, faulty.
19.PS Possessing affairs and-also afterwards permitted the great.
19.PS Nearing implies the great indeed.
19.5a/5b The great chief’s propriety.
19.IT Great Growing uses correcting.
20.PS The beings’ great, therefore afterwards permitted overseeing.
20.IT The great: overseeing located above.
24.6a Completing possesses great destruction.
25.HP The great accumulating: season indeed.
25.IT The great’s Growing uses correcting.
27.HP The great exceeding: toppling indeed.
27.3b Dao: the great rebels indeed.
27.6b The great possesses reward indeed.
27.IT The jaws’ season great actually in-fact
29.5b In the center not-yet the great indeed.
29.IT Venturing’s season avails of the great actually in-fact.
30.PW The great in the person uses consecutive brightening to illuminate tending-towards the four sides.
30.3a By consequence great oldage’s lamenting.
31.4b Not-yet the shining great indeed.
32.6b The great without achievement indeed.
33.HP The great’s vigor: by consequence stopping.
33.3b Not permitted the great in affairs indeed.
33.IT Retiring’s season righteously great actually in-fact.
35.IT Yielding and-also congregating reaching the great’s brightness.
36.3a Acquiring one’s great’s head.
36.3b Thereupon acquiring the great indeed.
36.IT Using enveloping the great: heaviness.
37.4a/4b Affluent household: the great, significant.
37.IT Heaven and earth’s great righteous indeed.
38.IT Polarizing’s season avails of the great actually in-fact.
39.IM/6a/6b/ IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
39.5a/5b The great’s limping, partners coming.
39.IT Limping’s season avails of the great actually in-fact.
40.IT Unraveling’s season great actually in-fact.
41.6b The great acquires purpose indeed.
42.1a Harvesting: availing of activating the great, arousing.
42.5b The great acquires purpose indeed.
42.IT One’s dao: the great shining.
44.3a Without the great: faulty.
44.IT Below heaven the great moves indeed.
44.IT Coupling’s season righteously great actually in-fact.
45.IM Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
45.IM/IT Availing of the great’s sacrificial-victims, significant.
45.4a/4b The great: significant, without fault.
45.IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person. Growing.
46.IM Availing of viewing the great in the person.
46.PW And amassing the small to use the high great.
46.1a/1b Sincere ascending: the great, significant.
46.5b The great acquires purpose indeed.
46.IT That uses the great, Growing.
46.IT Availing of viewing the great in the person.
47.IM/ IT Trial: the great in the person, significant.
48.6b The great accomplishes indeed.
49.5a/5b The great in the person: a tiger transforming.
49.IT The great’s Growing uses correctness.
49.IT Skinning’s season great actually in-fact.
50.6a The great, significant.
50.IT And-also the great’s Growing uses nourishing the wise and the eminent.
51.5b The great without loss indeed.
54.IT Heaven and earth’s great righteousness.
55.PS Acquiring one’s place for converting implies necessarily the great.
55.PS Abounding implies the great indeed.
55.3b Not permitted the great in affairs indeed.
55.IT Abounding, the great indeed.
55.IT Honoring the great indeed.
56.PS Exhausting the great implies necessarily letting-go one’s residing.
56.IT Sojourning’s season righteously great actually in-fact.
57.IM/ IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
58.IT Stimulating’s great.
59.4b The shining great indeed.
59.5a Dispersing sweat: one’s great cries-out.
62.IM Not permitted the great in affairs.
62.IM/IT The great, significant.
62.IT That uses not permitting the great in affairs indeed.
63.5b Significant. The great coming indeed.
64.4a Three years, possessing a donation tending-towards the great city.
Great-Bear, DOU: measure and container for grain, spoon, wine cup; the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear); this line points to a situation in which the sun is so eclipsed that the Great Bear is visible at midday.
55.2a/4a/4b The sun in the center: viewing the Great-Bear.
Grieve, YOU: mourn; sorrow, melancholy, anxiety, care, hidden sorrow. Ideogram: heart, head, and limp, heart-sick and anxious.
7/8.HP The legions: grief.
19.3a/3b Already grieving over it.
55.IM/ IT No grief. Properly the sun in the center.
Group, BI: compare and select, order things and put them in classes; find what you belong with; associate with, unite, join, harmonize; neighbor, near. Ideogram: two men following each other.
This term is the name of hexagram 8 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
7.HP Grouping: delight.
9.PS Grouping necessarily possesses a place to accumulate.
Grove, BAO: luxuriant growth, dense thicket; conceal, screen; sleeping mats; wrapping for food gifts. Ideogram: wrap and bushes.
12.5a Attachment tending-towards a grove of mulberry-trees.
Grow, HENG: heavenly influence pervading and nourishing all things; prosper, succeed, expand, develop; effective, favorable; quality of summer and South, second stage of the Time Cycle. With the pronunciation XIANG: offer a sacrifice; offer a gift to a superior; accept, enjoy.
See also: Hair-growing, Spring, Growing, Harvesting, Trial
2.IT The kinds of the beings conjoining, Growing.
3.IT The great: Growing, Trial.
4.IM/ IT Enveloping. Growing.
4.IT Using Growing to move.
5.IM/ IT Shining Growing, Trial, significant.
9.IM The small accumulating. Growing.
9.IT Thereupon Growing.
10.IM Growing.
10.IT Not snapping at people. Growing.
11.IM Significance Growing.
11.IT The small going, the great coming: significance Growing.
12.1a/2a/2b Growing.
13.IM/ IT Growing.
14.IM Spring, Growing.
14.3a/3b A prince avails of Growing tending-towards heavenly sonhood.
14.IT That uses Spring, Growing.
15.IM/ IT Humbling. Growing.
17.6a The king avails of Growing tending-towards the Western mountain.
17.IT The great Growing, Trial, without fault.
18.IM Decay. Spring, Growing.
18.IT Decay: Spring, Growing, and-also below heaven regulated indeed.
19.IT Great Growing uses correcting.
21.IM Gnawing and biting. Growing.
21.IT Gnawing and biting and-also Growing.
22.IM/ IT Adorning, Growing.
22.IT Anterior Growing.
23.PS Involved in embellishing, therefore afterwards Growing, by consequence used-up actually.
24.IM/ IT Return. Growing.
25.IT The great’s Growing uses correcting.
26.6a Growing.
28.IM Growing.
28.IT Thereupon Growing.
29.IM/ IT Holding-fast the heart, Growing.
30.IM Growing. Accumulating female cattle.
30.IT Anterior Growing.
31.IM Growing, Harvesting, Trial.
31.IT That uses Growing, Harvesting, Trial.
32.IM Persevering. Growing.
32.IT Persevering Growing, without fault.
33.IM/ IT Retiring. Growing.
33.IT Retiring and-also Growing indeed.
45.IM Clustering. Growing.
45.IM Growing, Harvesting, Trial.
45.IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person. Growing.
46.IM Ascending. Spring, Growing.
46.4a/4b The king avails of Growing tending-towards the twin-peaked mountain.
46.IT That uses the great, Growing.
47.IM Confining. Growing.
47.IT Confining and-also not letting-go one’s place: Growing.
49.IT The great’s Growing uses correctness.
50.IM Growing.
50.IT Growing: cooking indeed.
50.IT The wise person’s Growing uses presenting to the supreme above.
50.IT And-also the great’s Growing uses nourishing the wise and the eminent.
50.IT That uses Spring, Growing.
51.IM/ IT The shake. Growing.
55.IM Abounding. Growing.
56.IM/ IT Sojourning. The small, growing.
56.IT That uses the small, Growing.
57.IM The root. The small, Growing.
57.IT That uses the small, Growing.
58.IM Growing, Harvesting, Trial.
59.IM/ IT Dispersing. Growing.
60.IM/IT Articulating. Growing.
60.4a Peaceful articulating, Growing.
60.4b Peaceful articulating’s Growing.
62.IM The small exceeding. Growing.
62.IT The small implies exceeding and-also Growing indeed.
63.IM Already fording. Growing, the small.
63.IT Already fording. Growing.
63.IT The small implies Growing indeed.
64.IM/ IT Not-yet fording. Growing.
Grudges, YUAN: bitter feelings, ill-will; hate, abhor; murmur against. Ideogram: heart and overturn, upset emotion.
47.AT Confining: using few grudges.
Guard, SHOU: keep in custody; protect, ward off harm, attend to, supervise.
29.IT The king and the princes setup venturing used to guard their city.
51.IT Emerging permits using guarding the ancestral temple, the field-altar, the offertory-millet.
Gully, GU: valley, ravine, river bed, gap. Ideogram: divide and river, a river bed separating hills.
47.1a/1b Entering tending-towards a shady gully.
48.2a/2b The well: a gully, shooting bass.
Gush, TUO: water surging in streams; falling tears; heavy rain.
30.5a Emerging tears like gushing.
Hair-growing, XU: beard, hair; patience symbolized as waiting for hair to grow; hold back, wait for; slow; necessary.
5.IT Attending. Hair-growing indeed.
22.2a/2b Adorning: one’s hair-growing.
54.3a/3b Converting maidenhood uses hair-growing.
Halt, PO: limp; lame, crippled.
10.3a/3b Halting enables treading.
54.1a Halting enables treading.
54.1b Halting enables treading, significant.
Hamper, CHE: hinder, obstruct, hold or pull back; embarrass. Ideogram: hand and limit.
38.3a One’s cattle hampered.
Handful, WU: as much as the hand can hold; a little; grasp, hold.
45.1a Like an outcry, one handful activates laughter.
Handle, BING: haft; control of, power to.
15.AT Humbling: actualizing-dao’s handle indeed.
Hand-washing, GUAN: wash the hands before a sacramental act; ablutions, basin.
20.IM/ IT Overseeing. Hand-washing and-also not worshipping.
Hard, JIAN: solid, strong, rigid; harden, fortify, consolidate; resolute, fearless.
2.1a Treading frost, hard ice as culmination.
2.1b Treading frost, hard ice.
2.1b Culmination: hard ice indeed.
Harm, HAI: damage, injure, offend; suffer, become ill; obstacle, hindrance; fearful, anxious.
2.4b Considering not harmful indeed.
14.1a Without mingling with harm.
14.1b Without mingling with harm indeed.
14.3b The small in the person harmful indeed.
15.IT Soul and spirit harm overfilling and-also bless humbling.
31.2b Yielding not harmful indeed.
31.4b Not-yet influencing harmful indeed.
41.AT Diminishing: using distancing harm.
59.6b Distancing harm indeed.
60.IT Not harming the commoners.
Harmony, HE: concord, union; conciliate; at peace, mild; fit, tune, adjust.
1.IT Protection: uniting with the great’s harmony.
10.AT Treading: harmony and-also culmination.
10.AT Treading: using harmonious movement.
31.IT The wise person influences people’s heart and-also below heaven harmonizes evenness.
43.IT Breaking-up and-also harmonizing.
58.1a Harmonious open, significant.
58.1b Harmonious opening’s significance.
61.2a/2b One’s sonhood harmonizing with it.
Harvest, LI: benefit, advantage, profit; realization; sharp, acute, insightful; quality of autumn and West, third stage of the Time Cycle. Ideogram: ripe grain and blade.
See also: Spring, Growing, Harvesting, Trial, Without
direction Harvesting,
Without not Harvesting
1.2a/5a Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
1.IT Thereupon Harvesting, Trial.
2.IM A lord Harvesting.
2.7a Harvesting perpetual Trial.
2.IT The supple yielding, Harvesting, Trial.
3.IM Harvesting: installing feudatories.
3.1a Harvesting: residing in Trial.
3.1a Harvesting: installing feudatories.
4.IM Harvesting, Trial.
4.1a/1b Harvesting: availing of punishing people.
4.6a Not Harvesting: activating illegality.
4.6a Harvesting: resisting illegality.
4.6b Harvesting: availing of resisting illegality.
5.IM/IT Harvesting: wading the great river.
5.1a Harvesting: availing of perseverance.
5.1b Harvesting: availing of perseverance, without fault.
6.IM/IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
6.IM/ IT Not harvesting: wading the great river.
7.5a Harvesting: holding-on to words.
12.IM/ IT Not harvesting: a jun zi’s Trial.
13.IM/IT Harvesting: wading the great river.
13.IM Harvesting: a jun zi’s Trial.
15.5a/5b Harvesting: availing of encroaching and subjugating.
15.6a Harvesting: availing of moving legions.
16.IM Harvesting: installing feudatories, moving legions.
17.3a Harvesting: residing in Trial.
18.IM/ IT Harvesting: wading the great river.
20.2a Harvesting: woman’s Trial.
20.4a Harvesting: availing of hospitality tending-towards the king.
21.IM Harvesting: availing of litigating.
21.4a Harvesting drudgery, Trial.
21.4b Harvesting drudgery, Trial: significant.
21.IT Although not an appropriate position, Harvesting avails of litigating indeed.
22.IM/ IT Harvesting: possessing directed going.
23.IM/ IT Not Harvesting: possessing directed going.
24.IM/ IT Harvesting: possessing directed going.
25.IM/IT Not Harvesting: possessing directed going.
25.2a By consequence, Harvesting: possessing directed going.
26.IM Harvesting, Trial.
26.IM/IT Harvesting: wading the great river.
26.1a Harvesting: climaxing.
26.1b Possessing adversity, Harvesting, climaxing.
26.3a Harvesting drudgery, Trial.
26.3a/3b Harvesting: possessing directed going.
27.6a Harvesting: wading the great river.
28.IM/ IT Harvesting: possessing directed going.
30.IM Harvesting, Trial.
31.IM Growing, Harvesting, Trial.
31.IT That uses Growing, Harvesting, Trial.
32.IM/IT Harvesting, Trial.
32.IM/ IT Harvesting: possessing directed going.
33.IM/ IT The small, Harvesting, Trial.
34.IM/ IT The great’s vigor. Harvesting, Trial.
36.IM/IT Harvesting: drudgery, Trial.
36.5a Harvesting, Trial.
37.IM Household people. Harvesting: woman’s Trial.
39.IM/IT Limping. Harvesting: Western South.
39.IM/IT Not Harvesting: Eastern North.
39.IM/6a/6b/ IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
40.IM/ IT Unraveling. Harvesting: Western South.
41.IM/IT/6a Harvesting: possessing directed going.
41.2a Harvesting, Trial.
41.2b Nine at second: Harvesting, Trial.
42.IM/ IT Harvesting: possessing directed going.
42.IM/ IT Harvesting: wading the great river.
42.AT Augmenting: using the rising Harvest.
42.1a Harvesting: availing of activating the great, arousing.
42.4a Harvesting: availing of activating depends on shifting the city.
43.IM/ IT Not Harvesting: approaching weapons.
43.IM/ IT Harvesting: possessing directed going.
44.2a Not Harvesting: hospitality.
45.IM Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
45.IM Growing, Harvesting, Trial.
45.IM/ IT Harvesting: possessing directed going.
45.2a Conforming, thereupon Harvesting: availing of dedicating.
45.IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person. Growing.
46.2a Conforming, thereupon Harvesting: availing of dedicating.
46.6a Harvesting: tending towards not pausing’s Trial.
47.2a Harvesting: availing of presenting oblations.
47.5a/5b Harvesting: availing of offering oblations.
50.1a/1b Harvesting: emerging from obstruction.
50.5a Harvesting, Trial.
52.1a Harvesting: perpetual Trial.
53.IM Harvesting, Trial.
53.3a Harvesting: resisting illegality.
53.3b Harvesting: availing of resisting illegality.
54.2a/2b Harvesting: shady people’s Trial.
57.IM/ IT Harvesting: possessing directed going.
57.IM/ IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
57.1a/1b Harvesting: martial people’s Trial.
58.IM Growing, Harvesting, Trial.
58.IT Stimulating uses Harvesting, Trial.
59.IM/ IT Harvesting: wading the great river.
59.IM Harvesting, Trial.
61.IM/ IT Harvesting: wading the great river.
61.IM Harvesting, Trial.
61.IT The center conforming uses Harvesting, Trial.
62.IM Harvesting, Trial.
62.IT Exceeding uses Harvesting, Trial.
63.IM/ IT Harvesting, Trial.
64.3a Harvesting: wading the great river.
Hate, WU: detest, dread, dislike; averse to, ashamed of; repulsive, vicious, vile, ugly, wicked. Ideogram: twisted bowels and heart.
14.PW A jun zi uses terminating hatred to display improvement.
15.IT People’s dao hates overfilling and-also loves humbling.
33.PW And not hating and-also intimidating.
38.1a/1b Viewing hatred in the person.
Haul-along, QIAN: haul or pull, drag behind; pull an animal on a rope. Ideogram: ox and halter.
9.2a Hauling-along returning.
9.2b Hauling-along returning located in the center.
43.4a Hauling-along the goat, repenting extinguished.
44.1b The supple’s dao hauling-along indeed.
44.3b Moving, not-yet hauling-along indeed.
Hawk, SHUN: falcon, kestrel, bird of prey used in hunting.
40.6a A prince avails of shooting a hawk tending-towards the high rampart’s above.
40.6b A prince avails of shooting a hawk.
He/his, QI: general third person pronoun and possessive adjective; also: one/one’s, it/its, she/her, they/their.
This term occurs throughout the hexagram texts.
He-goat, DI YANG: ram or buck, particularly a three-year-old male at the peak of strength.
See also: Goat
34.3a/6a The he-goat butts a hedge.
Head, SHOU: physical head; leader, sovereign; beginning, origin, model; foremost, superior, upper, front.
1.7a Viewing a flock of dragons without head.
1.7b Heavenly actualizing-dao not permitting activating the head indeed.
1.IT Heads emerging from the multitude of beings.
8.6a/6b Grouping without a head.
30.6a Severing the head. Capturing in-no-way its demons.
36.3a Acquiring one’s great’s head.
63.6a Soaking one’s head.
63.6b Soaking one’s head, adversity.
64.6a Soaking one’s head.
64.6b Drinking liquor, soaking the head.
Hear, WEN: perceive sound; learn by report; news, fame. Ideogram: ear and door.
43.4a/4b Hearing words not trustworthy.
56.6b Completing absolutely-nothing’s hearing indeed.
Hearken, TING: listen attentively, obey, accept, acknowledge; examine, judge, decide. Ideogram: ear and actualizingdao.
5.4b Yielding uses hearkening indeed.
52.2b Not-yet withdrawing from hearkening indeed.
Heart, XIN: the heart as center of being; seat of mind, imagination and affect; moral nature; source of desires, intentions, will.
11.4b In the center the heart’s desire indeed.
15.2b In the center the heart acquiring indeed.
24.IT Return to one’s viewing heaven and earth’s heart reached.
29.IM/ IT Holding-fast the heart, Growing.
31.IT The wise person influences people’s heart and-also below heaven harmonizes evenness.
36.4a Capturing brightness hidden’s heart.
36.4b Capturing the heart: intention indeed.
42.5a/5b Possessing conformity, a benevolent heart.
42.6a Establishing the heart, no persevering.
48.3a Activating my heart’s ache.
52.2a One’s heart not keen.
52.3a Adversity smothers the heart.
52.3b Exposure smothers the heart indeed.
56.4a My heart not keen.
56.4b The heart not-yet keen indeed.
61.2b In the center the heart’s desire indeed.
Heaven, TIAN: sky, firmament, heavens; the highest realm, situated above the human world, as opposed to the earth, DI, located below; Symbol of the trigram Energy, QIAN. Ideogram: great and the one above.
See also: Below heaven
1.PW Heaven moves persistently.
1.5a/5b Flying dragon located in heaven.
1.7b Heavenly actualizing-dao not permitting activating the head indeed.
1.IT Thereupon primordial heaven.
1.IT The season rides six dragons used to drive up to heaven.
2.IT Thereupon yielding receives heaven.
3.PS Possessing heaven and earth.
3.PS Overfilling heaven and earth’s interspace implies verily the myriad beings.
3.IT Heaven creates grasses’ duskiness.
5.PW Clouds above with-respect-to heaven. Attending.
5.IT The position reaching the heavenly position.
6.PW Heaven associated with stream: contradicting movements. Arguing.
7.2b Receiving heavenly favor indeed.
9.PW Wind moves above heaven. The small accumulating.
10.PW Heaven above, pond below. Treading.
11.PW Heaven and earth mingling. Compenetration.
11.PW The crown prince uses property to accomplish heaven and earth’s dao.
11.PW And braces heaven and earth’s proper reciprocity.
11.3b Heaven and earth’s border indeed.
11.IT By consequence of that heaven and earth mingling and-also the myriad beings interpenetrating indeed.
12.PW Heaven and earth not mingling. Obstruction.
12.IT By consequence of that heaven and earth not mingling and-also the myriad beings not interpenetrating indeed.
13.PW Heaven associated with fire. Concording people.
14.PW Fire located above heaven. Great possessing.
14.PW And yielding to heaven to relax into fate.
14.3a/3b A prince avails of Growing tending-towards heavenly sonhood.
14.6a The origin in heaven shields it.
14.6b The origin in heaven shields indeed.
14.IT The correspondence reaches heaven and-also the season moves.
15.IT Heavenly dao: below fording and-also shining brightness.
15.IT Heavenly dao lessens overfilling and-also augments humbling.
16.IT Thus anterior heaven and earth’s.
16.IT Heaven and earth use yielding and stirring-up.
18.IT Heaven moving indeed.
19.IT Heaven’s dao indeed.
20.IT Overseeing heaven’s spirit dao.
22.IT Heavenly pattern indeed.
22.IT Overseeing reaches the heavenly pattern.
23.IT Heaven moves indeed.
24.IT Heaven moves indeed.
24.IT Return to one’s viewing heaven and earth’s heart reached.
25.IT Heaven’s fate indeed.
25.IT Heavenly fate not shielding.
26.PW Heaven located in the mountain’s center. The great accumulating.
26.6a/6b Is it not heaven’s highway?
26.IT Correspondence reaching heaven indeed.
27.IT Heaven and earth nourish the myriad beings.
29.IT Heaven’s venture: not permitting ascending indeed.
30.IT Sun and moon congregating reaching heaven.
31.PS Possessing heaven and earth.
31.IT Heaven and earth influence and-also the myriad beings change and generate.
31.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
32.IT Heaven and earth’s dao.
32.IT Sun and moon: acquiring heaven and-also enabling lasting and illuminating.
32.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
33.PW Heaven possesses mountain below. Retiring.
34.PW Thunder located above heaven. The great’s vigor.
34.IT Correcting the great and-also heaven and earth’s motives permitted to view actually.
36.6a/6b Initially mounting tending-towards heaven.
37.IT Heaven and earth’s great righteous indeed.
38.IT Heaven and earth: polarizing and-also their affairs concording indeed.
40.IT Heaven and earth unraveling and-also thunder and rain arousing.
42.IT Heaven spreads, earth generates.
43.PW Pond above with-respect-to heaven. Parting.
44.PW Heaven possessing wind below. Coupling.
44.5a/5b Possessing tumbling originating from heaven.
44.IT Heaven and earth reciprocally meeting.
45.IT Yielding to heaven’s fate indeed.
45.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
49.IT Heaven and earth skinning and-also the four seasons accomplishing.
49.IT Yielding reaches heaven and-also the correspondence reaches people.
54.IT Heaven and earth’s great righteousness.
54.IT Heaven and earth not mingling.
55.6b The heavenly border, hovering indeed.
55.IT Heaven and earth overfilling emptiness.
58.IT That uses yielding reaching heaven and-also correspondence reaching people.
60.IT Heaven and earth articulating and-also the four seasons accomplishing.
61.6a/6b A soaring sound mounts tending-towards heaven.
61.IT Thereupon the correspondence reaches heaven indeed.
Heaviness, NAN: difficulty, hardship, distress; arduous, grievous; harass; contrasts with versatility, YI, deal lightly with. Ideogram: bird with clipped tail on drying sticky soil.
3.2b Six at second’s heaviness.
3.IT Solid and supple begin to mingle and-also in heaviness generate.
5.1b Not opposing heaviness in movement.
12.PW A jun zi uses parsimonious actualizing-dao to expel heaviness.
36.IT Using enveloping the great: heaviness.
36.IT Inside heaviness and-also able to correct one’s purpose.
39.PS Turning-away necessarily possesses heaviness.
39.PS Limping implies heaviness indeed.
39/40.HP Limping: heaviness indeed.
39.IT Limping. Heaviness indeed.
40.PS Beings not permitted to use completing heaviness.
41.AT Diminishing: beforehand heaviness and-also afterwards versatility.
58.IT Stimulating uses opposing heaviness.
Hedge, FAN: row of bushes, fence, boundary; enclose, protect, fend off.
34.3a/6a The he-goat butts a hedge.
34.4a/4b The hedge broken-up, not ruined.
Herd, MU: tend cattle; watch over, superintend; ruler, teacher.
15.1b Lowliness uses originating herding indeed.
Hide, YI: squat, even, level, equalize; cut, wound, destroy, exterminate; pacified; colorless; distant, remote, barbarian.
This term occurs in the name of hexagram 36 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
35.HP Brightness hidden: proscribed indeed.
55.4a/4b Meeting one’s hidden lord.
59.4a In-no-way hidden, a place to ponder.
Hide-away, FU: hide, conceal; ambush; secret, silent; prostrate, submit. Ideogram: man and crouching dog.
13.3a/3b Hiding-away weapons tending-towards the thickets.
57/58.HP the root: hidden-away indeed.
High, GAO: high, elevated, lofty, eminent; honor, respect. Ideogram: high tower.
13.3a Ascending one’s high mound.
18.6a Honoring highness: one’s affair.
40.6a A prince avails of shooting a hawk tending-towards the high rampart’s above.
46.PW And amassing the small to use the high great.
63.3a The High Ancestor subjugates souls on all sides.
Highlands, LU: high, dry land as distinct from swamps; mountain, plateau.
43.5a The reeds, the highlands: parting, parting.
53.3a/6a The swan infiltrating tending-towards the highlands.
Highlight, YI: praise something worthy; inherent goodness, excellence, beauty, perfect virtue, modesty.
9.PW A jun zi uses highlighting the pattern to actualize-dao.
Highway, CHU: main road, thoroughfare; crossing, intersection.
26.6a/6b Is it not heaven’s highway?
Hill-top, QIU: hill with hollow top used for worship and as grave-site; knoll, hillock.
22.5a Adorning tends-towards a hill-top garden.
27.2a Rejecting the canons, tending-towards the hill-top.
29.IT Earth’s venture: mountains, rivers, hill-tops, mounds indeed.
59.4a Dispersing possesses the hilltop.
Hinder, ZHAN: obstacle, difficulty; advance hesitantly; detour.
3.2a Sprouting thus, hindered thus.
Hoary, BO: silvery grey hair; old and venerable.
22.4a Adorned thus, hoary thus.
Hog fish, TUN YU: aquatic mammals; porpoise, dolphin; sign of abundance and good luck.
61.IM The center conforming: hog fish, significant.
61.IT Hog fish, significant.
61.IT Trustworthiness extends to hog fish indeed.
Hold-fast, WEI: tie, connect, hold together; rope, reins, net.
17.6a Thereupon adhering: holding-fast to it.
29.IM/ IT Holding-fast the heart, Growing.
35.6a/6b Holding-fast avails of subjugating the capital.
40.5a A jun zi holding-fast possesses unraveling. Significant.
Hold-on, ZHI: lay hold of, seize, take in hand; keep, maintain, look after; manage, control. Ideogram: criminal and seize.
7.5a Harvesting: holding-on to words.
31.3a Holding-on to one’s following.
31.3b A place for holding-on to the below indeed.
33.2a Holding-on avails of yellow cattle’s skin.
33.2b Holding-on avails of yellow cattle.
Home, SHI: room, house, dwelling; family; the grave.
9.3b Not able to correct the home indeed.
Honor, SHANG: esteem, give high rank to, exalt, celebrate; rise, elevate; put one thing on top of another.
6.IT Honoring the center’s correctness indeed.
9.6a Honoring actualizing-dao: carrying.
9.IT Honoring going indeed.
11.2a Acquiring honor tending-towards the center: movement.
11.2b Enwrapped in wasteland, acquiring honor tending-towards the center: movement.
18.6a Honoring highness: one’s affair.
20.4b Honoring hospitality indeed.
23.IT A jun zi honors the dissolving pause to overfill emptiness.
26.IT The solid above and-also honoring eminence.
29.IM Movement possesses honor.
29.IT Movement possesses honor. Going possesses achievement indeed.
34.4b Honoring going indeed.
41.1b Honoring uniting purposes indeed.
43.IT The place to honor thereupon exhausted indeed.
47.IT Honoring the mouth thereupon exhausted indeed.
55.1a Going possesses honor.
55.IT Honoring the great indeed.
60.5a Going possesses honor.
Hoof, DI: horse’s hooves and pig’s trotters.
44.1a Ruined the pig’s conformity: hoof dragging.
Horns, JIAO: physical horns; butt, attack, gore; dispute, test one’s strength; headland.
34.3a Ruins its horns.
35.6a Prospering: one’s horns.
44.6a/6b Coupling: one’s horns.
Horse, MA: symbol of spirited strength in the natural world, earthly counterpart of the dragon; associated with the trigram Energy, QIAN, heaven, and high noon.
2.IM Space. Spring, Growing, Harvesting, female horse’s Trial.
2.IT The female horse: to the earth sorted.
3.2a/4a/6a Riding a horse, arraying thus.
22.4a A white horse soaring thus.
26.3a A fine horse, pursuing.
35.IM Prospering. A content feudatory avails of bestowing horses to enhance the multitudes.
35.IT That uses a content feudatory availing of bestowing horses to enhance the multitudes.
36.2a Availing of a rescuing horse’s vigor, significant.
38.1a Losing the horse, no pursuing: originating from returning.
59.1a Availing of a rescuing horse’s vigor, significant.
61.4a/4b The horse team extinguished.
Hospitality, BIN: both entertain a guest, receive a stranger, and visit someone, enjoy hospitality.
20.4a Harvesting: availing of hospitality tending-towards the king.
20.4b Honoring hospitality indeed.
44.2a Not Harvesting: hospitality.
44.2b Righteously not extending hospitality indeed.
Hound, SHOU: hunt with dogs; annual winter hunt; pursue closely, press hard; burn dry fields to drive game; military expedition.
36.3a Brightness hidden tends-towards the Southern hounding.
36.3b Southern hounding’s purpose.
House, GONG: residence, mansion; surround; fence, walls, roof.
23.5a/5b Using house people’s favor.
47.3a/3b Entering tending-towards one’s house.
Household, JIA: home, house; family; dwell, reside; domestic, within doors; shop, school, doctrine. Ideogram: roof and pig or dog, the most valued domestic animals, living under the same roof with the family.
This term occurs in the name of hexagram 37 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
4.2a/2b The son controls the household.
7.6a Disclosing the city, receiving a household.
26.IM/ IT Not in the household taking-in. Significant.
38.PS Household’s dao exhausted, necessarily turning-away.
38.HP Household people: inside indeed.
41.6a Acquiring a servant without a household.
55.6a Screening one’s household.
Hover, XIANG: rise, soar, glide, fly above, roam.
55.6b The heavenly border, hovering indeed.
Humanity, REN: fellow-feeling, regard for others; benevolence, kindness, compassion; fulfill social duties.
24.2b Below using humanity indeed.
Humble, QIAN: think and speak of oneself in a modest way; respectful, unassuming, retiring, unobtrusive; yielding, compliant, reverent, lowly. Ideogram: words and unite, keeping words close to underlying facts.
This term is the name of hexagram 15 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
16.PS Possessing the great and-also enabling humbleness necessarily provides.
16.HP Humbling: levity.
Hundred, BO: numerous, many, all; a whole class or type.
6.2a People, three hundred doors.
30.IT The hundred grains, grasses, trees congregating reaching the earth.
40.IT Thunder and rain arousing and-also the hundred fruits, grasses, trees, altogether seedburst’s boundary.
51.IM/ IT The shake scares a hundred miles.
Hundred-thousand, YI: a huge quantity. Ideogram: man and thought, a number that can only be imagined.
51.2a A hundred-thousand coins lost.
51.5a Hundred-thousand without loss, possessing affairs.
Husband, FU: adult, man, male spouse; scholar, distinguished man; one who can help; manage a household. Ideogram: man with a pin in his hair to show that he is of age.
4.3a Viewing a metallic husband.
8.IM/ IT Afterwards husbanding: pitfall.
9.3a/3b Husband and consort reversing the eyes.
17.2a Letting-go the respectable husband.
17.3a/3b Tied to the respectable husband.
28.2a A venerable husband acquires his woman consort.
28.2b A venerable husband and a woman consort.
28.5a A venerable wife acquires her scholarly husband.
28.5b A venerable wife and a scholarly husband.
31.PS Therefore afterwards possessing husband and wife.
31.PS Possessing husband and wife.
32.PS Husband and wife’s dao.
32.5a The husband and the son, pitfall.
32.5b The husband and the son, paring righteously.
37.IT The husband, a husband. The wife, a wife.
38.4a Meeting Spring, husbanding.
53.3a/3b The husband disciplined, not returning.
Husking, GENG: fruit and grain husks bursting in autumn; seventh of the Ten Heavenly Barriers in calendar system; bestow, reward; blade or sword; associated with the Metallic Moment. Ideogram: two hands threshing grain.
57.5a Before husking, three days.
57.5a After husking, three days.
Hut, LU: thatched hut, cottage, roadside lodge, hovel.
23.6a/6b The small in the person strips the hut.
I/me/my, WO: first person pronoun; the use of a specific personal pronoun, as opposed to the generic one’s, QI, indicates an unusually strong emphasis on personal involvement.
4.IM/ IT In-no-way I seek the youthful enveloping.
4.IM/ IT The youthful enveloping seeks me.
5.3b Originating from my involvement in illegality.
9.IM/ IT Originating from my Western suburbs.
20.3a/3b Overseeing my generation: advancing, withdrawing.
20.5a/5b Overseeing my generation.
27.1a/1b Overseeing my pendent jaw.
40.3b Originating from my involvement with weapons.
42.5a Possessing conformity, benevolence: my actualizing-dao.
42.5b Benevolence: my actualizingdao.
48.3a Activating my heart’s ache.
50.2a/2b My companion possesses affliction.
50.2a Not me able to approach.
56.4a My heart not keen.
61.2a I possess a loved wine-cup.
62.5a Originating from my Western suburbs.
Ice, BING: frozen water; icy, freezing; clear, pure.
2.1a Treading frost, hard ice as culmination.
2.1b Treading frost, hard ice.
2.1b Culmination: hard ice indeed.
Illegality, KOU: take by force, violate, invade, sack, break the laws; brutality; enemies, outcasts, bandits.
3.2a In-no-way illegality, matrimonial alliance.
4.6a Not Harvesting: activating illegality.
4.6a Harvesting: resisting illegality.
4.6b Harvesting: availing of resisting illegality.
5.3a Involvement in illegality culminating.
5.3b Originating from my involvement in illegality.
22.4a/4b In-no-way illegality, matrimonial alliance.
38.6a In-no-way illegality, matrimonial alliance.
40.3a Involvement in illegality culminating.
53.3a Harvesting: resisting illegality.
53.3b Harvesting: availing of resisting illegality.
Illuminate, ZHAO: shine light on, enlighten; care for, supervise. Ideogram: fire and brightness.
30.PW The great in the person uses consecutive brightening to illuminate tending-towards the four sides.
32.IT Sun and moon: acquiring heaven and-also enabling lasting and illuminating.
36.6b Illuminating the four cities indeed.
55.IT Properly illuminating below heaven indeed.
Imagine, JIA: create in the mind; fantasize, suppose; pretend, imitate; fiction, illusion; costume. Ideogram: person and borrow.
37.5a/5b The king imagines possessing a household.
45.IM/ IT The king imagines possessing a temple.
55.IM/ IT The king imagines it.
59.IM/ IT The king imagines possessing a temple.
Immature, ZHI: small, tender, young, delicate; undeveloped; conceited, haughty; late grain.
4.PS Beings’ immaturity indeed.
5.PS Beings’ immaturity not permitted not nourishing indeed.
Immerse, QIAN: submerge, hide in water; deep, secret, reserved; retire, withdraw.
1.1a/1b Immersed dragon, no availing of.
Imminent, PIN: on the brink of; pressing, urgent; often, repeatedly.
24.3a Imminent return. Adversity.
24.3b Imminent return’s adversity.
57.3a Imminent root, abashment.
57.3b Imminent root’s abashment.
Impede, SAI: clog, fill up, close, obstruct; hinder, prevent; hide; unintelligent, dull.
50.3a Its movement impeded.
60.1b Knowing interpenetration impeded indeed.
Impetuous, FEN: sudden energy; lively, spirited, impulsive; excite, arouse.
16.PW Thunder emerges from the earth impetuously. Providing.
Implements, QI: utensils, tools; molded or carved objects; use a person or thing suitably; capacity, talent, intelligence.
45.PW A jun zi uses eliminating weapons for implements.
51.PS A lord’s implements imply absolutely-nothing like the long-living son.
Imply, ZHE: further signify; additional meaning.
This term occurs in the Preceding Situation of most hexagrams. It also occurs in:
28.IT The great implies exceeding indeed.
34.IT The great implies vigor indeed.
34.IT The great implies correcting indeed.
62.IT The small implies exceeding and-also Growing indeed.
63.IT The small implies Growing indeed.
Impress, WEI: impose on, intimidate; august, solemn; pomp, majesty.
14.5a Impressing thus. Significant.
14.5b Impressing thus’ significance.
37.6a Possessing conformity, impressing thus.
37.6b Impressing thus’ significance.
Improve, SHAN: make better, reform, perfect; virtuous, wise; mild, docile; clever, skillful. Ideogram: mouth and sheep, gentle speech.
14.PW A jun zi uses terminating hatred to display improvement.
42.PW A jun zi uses viewing improvement, by consequence shifting.
53.PW A jun zi uses residing in eminent actualizing-dao to improve the customs.
Increase, SHENG: fill up; abundant, copious; vigorous, flourishing, exuberant; peak, culmination; exalt.
41.HP Increasing: decreasing’s beginning indeed.
42.HP Decreasing: increasing’s beginning indeed.
Indeed, YE: emphasizes and intensifies the previous statement.
This term occurs throughout the hexagram texts.
Indignation, WEN: irritation, wrath, rage, hate; feeling of injustice.
43.3a Like soaked, possessing indignation.
Indigo, XUAN: color associated with the Metallic Moment; deep blue-black, color of the sky’s depths; profound, subtle, deep.
2.6a Their blood indigo and yellow.
Individuality, SHEN: total person: psyche, body and lifespan; character, virtue, duty, pregnancy; distinct from body, GONG, physical being.
24.1b Using adjusting individuality indeed.
37.6b Reversing individuality’s designation indeed.
39.PW A jun zi uses reversing individuality to renovate actualizing-dao.
52.IM Not capturing one’s individuality.
52.4a/4b The bound: one’s individuality.
52.IT That uses not capturing one’s individuality.
Indolence, DAI: lazy, idle, inattentive, careless; self-indulgent; disdainful, contemptuous.
15/16.HP And-also providing: indolence indeed.
In-fact, ZAI: emphatic exclamation; truly, indeed.
1.IT The great: in-fact energy’s Spring.
2.IT Culminating in-fact: space’s Spring.
16.IT Providing’s season righteously great actually in-fact.
17.IT Following’s season righteously great actually in-fact.
25.IT Moving actually in-fact.
27.IT Jaws’ season great actually in-fact.
28.IT Great exceeding’s season great actually in-fact.
29.IT Venturing’s season avails of the great actually in-fact.
33.IT Retiring’s season righteously great actually in-fact.
38.IT Polarizing’s season avails of the great actually in-fact.
39.IT Knowing actually in-fact.
39.IT Limping’s season avails of the great actually in-fact.
40.IT Unraveling’s season great actually in-fact.
44.IT Coupling’s season righteously great actually in-fact.
49.IT Skinning’s season great actually in-fact.
56.IT Sojourning’s season righteously great actually in-fact.
58.IT The commoners encouraged actually in-fact.
Infiltrate, JIAN: penetrate slowly and surely, as water; diffuse throughout; advance by degrees; gradual process; influence, affect. Ideogram: water and cut into.
This term occurs in the name of hexagram 53 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
54.HP Infiltrating: womanhood converting awaits manhood moving indeed.
Influence, GAN: excite, act on, touch; affect someone’s feelings, move the heart; emotion, feeling. Ideogram: heart and all, pervasive influence.
31.4b Not-yet influencing harmful indeed.
31.IT Conjunction. Influencing indeed.
31.IT The two agencies’ influences correspond using reciprocal association.
31.IT Heaven and earth influence and-also the myriad beings change and generate.
31.IT The wise person influences people’s heart and-also below heaven harmonizes evenness.
31.IT Overseeing one’s place to influence.
Inform, YU: tell; warn; converse, exchange ideas.
27.PW A jun zi uses considerate words to inform.
Initial, CHU: beginning, incipient, first step or part; bottom line of a hexagram. Ideogram: knife and garment, cutting out the pattern.
4.IM/ IT The initial oracle-consulting notifies.
8.1b Grouping’s initial six.
14.1b Great possessing, initial nine.
16.1b Initial six: the call of providing.
20.1b Initial six, youthful overseeing.
36.6a/6b Initially mounting tending-towards heaven.
38.3a/3b Without initially possessing completion.
57.5a Without initially possessing completion.
59.1b Initial six’s significance.
61.1b Initial nine: precaution significant.
63.IM/ IT Initially: significant.
Injure, SHANG: hurt, wound, damage; grief, distress, mourning; sad at heart, afflicted.
8.3b Not truly injuring reached.
36.PS Advancing necessarily possesses a place for injury.
36.PS Hiding implies injury indeed.
37.PS Injury with-respect-to the outside implies necessarily reversing with-respect-to the household.
56.3b Truly using injury actually.
60.IT Not injuring property.
Innate, XING: inborn character; spirit, quality, ability; natural, without constraint. Ideogram: heart and produce, spontaneous feeling.
1.IT Each correcting innate fate.
In-no-way, FEI: strong negative; not so; bandit, rebel; unjust, immoral. Ideogram: a box filled with opposition.
3.2a In-no-way illegality, matrimonial alliance.
4.IM/ IT In-no-way I seek the youthful enveloping.
8.3a/3b Grouping’s in-no-way people.
12.IM/ IT Obstruction’s in-no-way people.
14.1a In-no-way faulty.
14.4a/4b In-no-way one’s preponderance.
22.4a/4b In-no-way illegality, matrimonial alliance.
25.IM/ IT One’s in-no-way correcting possesses blunder.
30.6a Severing the head. Capturing in-no-way its demons.
38.6a In-no-way illegality, matrimonial alliance.
39.2a In-no-way the body’s anteriority.
45.5a In-no-way conforming.
59.4a In-no-way hidden, a place to ponder.
Inside, NEI: within, inner, interior; inside of the house and those who work there, particularly women; inside of the body, inner organs; the lower trigram, as opposed to outside, WAI, the upper. Ideogram: border and enter.
8.2a/2b Grouping’s origin inside.
11.IT Inside Yang and-also outside Yin.
11.IT Inside persisting and-also outside yielding.
11.IT Inside jun zi and-also outside the small in the person.
12.IT Inside Yin and-also outside Yang.
12.IT Inside supple and-also outside solid.
12.IT Inside the small in the person and-also outside jun zi.
19.6b Purpose located inside indeed.
25.IT And-also activates a lord with-respect-to the inside.
36.IT Inside pattern bright and-also outside supple yielding.
36.IT Inside heaviness and-also able to correct one’s purpose.
37/38.HP Household people: inside indeed.
37.IT The woman in the correct position reaching the inside.
39.3b Inside rejoicing in it indeed.
39.6b Purpose located inside indeed.
61.IT The supple located inside and-also the solid acquires the center.
Inspect, XING: examine, inquire, reflect, consider; visit.
20.PW The earlier kings used inspecting on all sides and overseeing the commoners to setup teaching.
24.PW The crown prince used culminating sun not to inspect on all sides.
51.PW A jun zi uses anxiety and fear to adjust inspections.
Install, JIAN: set up, establish, erect, nominate; robust, solid; confirm a law or an institution.
3.IM/1a Harvesting: installing feudatories.
3.IT Proper installing feudatories and-also not soothing.
8.PW The earlier kings used installing a myriad cities to connect the related feudatories.
16.IM Harvesting: installing feudatories, moving legions.
16.IT And-also even-more installing feudatories to move legions reached.
Intention, YI: thought, idea, opinion; project, expectation; meaning, connotation. Ideogram: heart and sound, the heart behind the words.
18.1b Intention received from the predecessors indeed.
36.4b Capturing the heart: intention indeed.
Interpenetrate, TONG: penetrate freely and reciprocally, permeate, flow through, open a way; see clearly, understand deeply; communicate with; together.
11.PS Compenetration implies interpenetrating indeed.
11.IT By consequence of that heaven and earth mingling and-also the myriad beings interpenetrating indeed.
12.PS Beings not permitted to use completing interpenetration.
12.IT By consequence of that heaven and earth not mingling and-also the myriad beings not interpenetrating indeed.
13.IT Verily a jun zi activating enables interpenetration of below heaven’s purposes.
38.IT Man and woman: polarizing and-also their purposes interpenetrating indeed.
47/48.HP The well: interpenetrating, and-also
47.AT Confining: exhausting and-also interpenetrating.
60.1b Knowing interpenetration impeded indeed.
60.IT The center’s correctness uses interpenetrating.
Interspace, XIAN: space between, interval; vacant, empty. Ideogram: moonlight coming in through a door ajar.
3.PS Overfilling heaven and earth’s interspace implies verily the myriad beings.
Intertwist, RU: interlaced, entangled, as roots; forage, straw.
11.1a Eradicating thatch-grass intertwisted.
12.1a Eradicating thatch-grass intertwisted.
Intimidate, YAN: inspire with fear or awe; severe, rigid, strict, austere, demanding; a severe father; tight, a closed door.
33.PW And not hating and-also intimidating.
37.IT Household people possess an intimidating chief in-truth.
In-truth, YAN: a final affirmative particle; the preceding statement is complete and correct.
3.PS Therefore afterwards the myriad beings’ generation in-truth.
14.PS Associating with people concording implies beings necessarily converting in-truth.
37.IT Household people possess an intimidating chief in-truth.
62.IT Possessing the flying bird’s symbol in-truth.
64.PS From anterior acquiescence derives the use of not-yet fording’s completion in-truth.
Inundation, YAN: overflowing; propagate, multiply, spread out; abundance, opulence; superfluous.
5.2b Inundation located in the center indeed.
Invite, SU: call; urge, exert pressure upon; quick, hurried.
5.6a Possessing not invited visitors: three people come.
5.6b Not invited visitors come.
31/32.HP Conjunction: inviting indeed.
Involve, ZHI: devote oneself to; induce, cause, implicate; approach; manifest, express; reach the highest degree of. Ideogram: reach and come up behind.
2.1b Docile involvement in one’s dao.
5.3a Involvement in illegality culminating.
5.3b Originating from my involvement in illegality.
23.PS Involved in embellishing, therefore afterwards Growing, by consequence used-up actually.
40.3a Involvement in illegality culminating.
40.3b Originating from my involvement with weapons.
45.IT Involving reverent presenting indeed.
47.PW A jun zi uses involving in fate to release purpose.
51.1b/ IT Anxiety involves blessing indeed.
55.PW A jun zi uses severing litigations involving punishment.
Is?, HE: ask, inquire; what? which? who? how? why? where? an interrogative particle, often introducing a rhetorical question: is it? is it not?
3.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
7.IT Significant, furthermore is it actually faulty?
9.1a Is it one’s fault?
12.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
16.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
17.4a Is it faulty?
21.6a/6b Is not locking-up submerging the ears?
25.IT Is it actually?
26.6a/6b Is it not heaven’s highway?
28.5b Is it permitted to last indeed?
30.3b Is it permitted to last indeed?
33.1b Not going, is it a calamity indeed?
38.5a Going, is it faulty?
49.3b Furthermore is it actually?
50.4b Is it trustworthy thus indeed?
61.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
62.1b Not permitted thus, is it indeed?
62.3b Pitfall thus, it is indeed!
63.6b Is it permitted to last indeed?
It/its, QI: general third person pronoun and possessive adjective; also: one/one’s, he/his, she/her, they/their.
This term occurs throughout the hexagram texts.
Jade, YU: jade and all gemstones; precious, beautiful; delightful, happy, perfect, clear.
50.6a The vessel’s jade rings.
50.6b Jade rings located above.
Jar, FOU: earthenware vessels; wine-jars and drums. Ideogram: jar containing liquor.
8.1a Possessing conformity: overfilling the jar.
29.4a Availing of a jar.
30.3a Not drumbeating a jar and-also singing.
Jawbones, see Brace/jawbones Jaws, YI: mouth, jaws, cheeks, chin; swallow, take in, ingest; feed, nourish, sustain, rear. Ideogram: open jaws.
This term is the name of hexagram 27 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
21.IT Jaws’ center possesses being.
28.HP The jaws: nourishing correctly indeed.
Join, JIAN: add or bring together, unite; absorb, assimilate; simultaneously, also. Ideogram: hand grasping two grain stalks, two things at once.
17.2b Nowhere joining in association indeed.
52.PW Joined mountains. The bound.
Join-together, HE: unite for a purpose. Ideogram: a vase and its lid.
16.4a Partners join-together suddenly.
Joy/rejoice, XI: delight, exult; cheerful, merry. Ideogram: joy (music) and mouth, expressing joy.
12.6a Beforehand obstruction, afterwards joy.
18.PS Using joy in following people implies necessarily possessing affairs.
22.5b Possessing joy indeed.
25.5a No simple possesses joy.
26.4b Possessing joy indeed.
39.3b Inside rejoicing in it indeed.
41.4a Commissioning swiftly possesses joy.
41.4b Truly permitting joy indeed.
46.2b Possessing joy indeed.
58.4a The cuirass’ affliction possesses joy.
58.4b Nine at fourth’s joy.
Jug, WENG: earthen jar; jug used to draw water.
48.2a The jug cracked, leaking.
Juice, GAO: active essence; oil, grease, ointment; fertilizing, rich; genius.
3.5a/5b Sprouting: one’s juice.
50.3a The pheasant’s juice not taken-in.
Jujube-tree, JI: thorny bush or tree; sign of a court of justice or site of official literary examinations; difficulties, pains; firm, correct, strict.
29.6a Dismissing tending-towards dense jujube-trees.
Jun zi: ideal of a person who orders his/her life in accordance with dao rather than willful intention, and uses divination in this spirit.
1.PW A jun zi uses originating strength not to pause.
1.3a A jun zi completing the day: energy parching.
2.IM A jun zi possesses directed going.
2.PW A jun zi uses munificent actualizing-dao to carry the beings.
2.IT A jun zi: directed moving.
3.PW A jun zi uses the canons to coordinate.
3.3a A jun zi: hint not thus stowed away.
3.3b A jun zi stowing it: going, abashment, exhaustion indeed.
4.PW A jun zi uses the fruits of movement to nurture actualizingdao.
5.PW A jun zi uses drinking and taking-in to repose delightfully.
6.PW A jun zi uses arousing affairs to plan beginnings.
7.PW A jun zi uses tolerating the commoners to accumulate crowds.
9.PW A jun zi uses highlighting the pattern to actualize-dao.
9.6a/6b A jun zi disciplining, pitfall.
10.PW A jun zi uses differentiating above and below.
11.IT Inside jun zi and-also outside the small in the person.
11.IT A jun zi’s dao long-living.
12.IM/IT Not harvesting: a jun zi’s Trial.
12.PW A jun zi uses parsimonious actualizing-dao to expel heaviness.
12.IT Inside the small in the person and-also outside jun zi.
12.IT A jun zi’s dao dissolving indeed.
13.IM Harvesting: a jun zi’s Trial.
13.PW A jun zi uses sorting the clans to mark-off the beings.
13.IT A jun zi correct indeed.
13.IT Verily a jun zi activating enables interpenetration of below heaven’s purposes.
14.PW A jun zi uses terminating hatred to display improvement.
15.IM A jun zi possesses completing.
15.PW A jun zi uses reducing the numerous to augment the few.
15.1a/1b Humbling, humbling: jun zi.
15.3a/3b The toil of humbling: jun zi.
15.IT A jun zi’s completion indeed.
17.PW A jun zi uses turning to darkness to enter a reposing pause.
18.PW A jun zi uses rousing the commoners to nurture actualizing-dao.
19.PW A jun zi uses teaching to ponder without exhausting.
20.1a A jun zi: abashment.
20.5a/6a A jun zi: without fault.
22.PW A jun zi uses brightening the multitude of standards without daring to sever litigations.
23.6a/6b A jun zi acquires a cart.
23.IT A jun zi honors the dissolving pause to overfill emptiness.
26.PW A jun zi uses the numerous recorded preceding words to go and move.
27.PW A jun zi uses considerate words to inform.
28.PW A jun zi uses solitary establishing not to fear.
29.PW A jun zi uses constancy in actualizing-dao to move.
31.PW A jun zi uses emptiness to acquiesce the people.
32.PW A jun zi uses establishing, not versatility on all sides.
33.PW A jun zi uses distancing the small in the person.
33.4a A jun zi, significant.
33.4b A jun zi lovingly retiring.
34.PW A jun zi uses no codes whatever, nowhere treading.
34.3a A jun zi avails of absence.
34.3b A jun zi of absence indeed.
35.PW A jun zi uses originating enlightening to brighten actualizing-dao.
36.PW A jun zi uses supervising the crowds availing of darkening and-also brightening.
36.1a/1b A jun zi tends-towards moving.
37.PW A jun zi uses words to possess beings and-also movement to possess perseverance.
38.PW A jun zi uses concording and-also dividing.
39.PW A jun zi uses reversing individuality to renovate actualizing-dao.
40.PW A jun zi uses forgiving excess to pardon offenses.
40.5a A jun zi holding-fast possesses unraveling. Significant.
40.5b A jun zi possesses unraveling.
41.PW A jun zi uses curbing anger and blocking appetites.
42.PW A jun zi uses viewing improvement, by consequence shifting.
43.PW A jun zi uses spreading benefits extending to the below.
43.3a/3b A jun zi: parting, parting.
45.PW A jun zi uses eliminating weapons for implements.
46.PW A jun zi uses yielding to actualizing-dao.
47.PW A jun zi uses involving in fate to release purpose.
47.IT One’s very jun zi reached.
48.PW A jun zi uses the toiling commoners to encourage reciprocity.
49.PW A jun zi uses regulating the calendar to brighten the seasons.
49.6a/6b A jun zi: a leopard transforming.
50.PW A jun zi uses correcting the position to solidify fate.
51.PW A jun zi uses anxiety and fear to adjust inspections.
52.PW A jun zi uses pondering not to emerge from one’s position.
53.PW A jun zi uses residing in eminent actualizing-dao to improve the customs.
54.PW A jun zi uses perpetually completing to know the cracked.
55.PW A jun zi uses severing litigations involving punishment.
56.PW A jun zi uses bright consideration availing of punishment and-also not detaining litigations.
57.PW A jun zi uses assigning fate to move affairs.
58.PW A jun zi uses partnering with friends to explicate repeatedly.
60.PW A jun zi uses paring and reckoning the measures.
61.PW A jun zi uses deliberating litigations to delay death.
62.PW A jun zi uses moving in excess to reach courtesy.
63.PW A jun zi uses pondering on distress and-also providing for defending-against it.
64.PW A jun zi uses considerately marking-off the beings residing on all sides.
64.5a/5b A jun zi’s shine.
Junior, DI: younger relatives who owe respect to their elders.
7.5a/5b The junior son carts corpses.
37.IT The senior, a senior. The junior, a junior.
Junior-sister, DI: younger woman in family or clan; younger sister married to the same man as the elder sister; young concubine, servant.
54.1a/1b Converting maidenhood uses the junior-sister.
54.3a Reversed converting uses the junior-sister.
54.5a/5b Not thus fine one’s junior-sister’s sleeves.
Keen, KUAI: joyous, cheerful, lively, spirited; eager, prompt, ready; capable of.
52.2a One’s heart not keen.
56.4a My heart not keen.
56.4b The heart not-yet keen indeed.
Keep-aloof, JI: keep at a distance; avoid, fear, shun, abstain from; prohibition. Ideogram: heart and self, keeping to oneself.
43.PW And residing in actualizingdao, by consequence keeping-aloof.
Kill, QIANG: murder, put to death, particularly a sovereign or a chief; assault, wound, maltreat, misuse.
62.3a/3b Adhering maybe kills it.
Kinds, PIN: species and their essential qualities; sort, class, degree; numerous, innumerable.
1.IT The kinds of beings diffuse in forms.
2.IT The kinds of the beings conjoining, Growing.
44.IT The kinds of beings conjoin in composition indeed.
57.4a/4b The fields: capturing three kinds.
King, WANG: sovereign, effective ruler, emperor, seen as connecting heaven and earth; reign, govern.
See also: Earlier kings
2.3a/3b Maybe adhering to kingly affairs.
6.3a Maybe adhering to kingly affairs.
7.2a/2b The king thrice bestows fate.
7.IT Actually permitted using kinghood.
8.5a The king avails of three beaters.
17.6a The king avails of Growing tending-towards the Western mountain.
18.6a/6b Not affairs, a king’s feudatory.
20.4a Harvesting: availing of hospitality tending-towards the king.
29.IT The king and the princes setup venturing used to guard their city.
30.5b Radiance: king and princes indeed.
30.6a/6b The king avails of emerging to discipline.
35.2a Tending-towards one’s kingly mother.
36.IT The Pattern King uses it.
37.5a/5b The king imagines possessing a household.
39.2a/2b A king, a servant: limping, limping.
42.2a The king avails of presenting tending-towards the supreme, significant.
43.IM Parting. Displaying tending-towards the king’s chambers.
43.IT Displaying tending-towards the king’s chambers.
45.IM/ IT The king imagines possessing a temple.
46.4a/4b The king avails of Growing tending-towards the twin-peaked mountain.
48.3a Kingly brightness.
48.3b Seeking kingly brightness.
55.IM/ IT The king imagines it.
59.IM/IT The king imagines possessing a temple.
59.5a/5b The king’s residing, without fault.
59.IT The king thereupon located in the center indeed.
Know, ZHI: have knowledge of, perceive, experience, remember; know intimately; informed, aware, wise. Ideogram: arrow and mouth, words focused and swift.
2.3b Knowing the shine of the great indeed.
19.5a Knowledge nearing.
24.AT Return: using the origin’s knowledge.
39.IT Knowing actually in-fact.
54.PW A jun zi uses perpetually completing to know the cracked.
60.1b Knowing interpenetration impeded indeed.
64.1b Truly not knowing the end indeed.
64.6b Truly not knowing articulation indeed.
Lack, WU: strong negative; there is no, without, empty of, absence.
3.3a Approaching a stag: lacking precaution.
53.1a Lacking fault.
57.PS Sojourning and-also lacking a place for tolerance.
Ladle, BI: ceremonial spoon used to pour libations.
51.IM/ IT Not losing the ladle and the libation.
Lament, JUE: sigh, express intense regret or sorrow, mourn over; painful recollections.
30.3a By consequence great oldage’s lamenting.
30.5a Sadness like lamenting.
45.3a Clustering thus, lamenting thus.
60.3a Not like articulating, by consequence like lamenting.
60.3b Not articulating’s lamenting.
Last, JIU: endure; long, protracted, permanent, eternal; old, ancient.
1.6b Overfilling not permitting to last indeed.
19.IT Dissolving not lasting indeed.
28.5b Is it permitted to last indeed?
30.3b Is it permitted to last indeed?
31.HP Persevering: lasting indeed.
32.PS Not permitted to use not lasting indeed.
32.PS Persevering implies lasting indeed.
32.HP Persevering: lasting indeed.
32.2b Able to last in the center indeed.
32.4b No lasting whatever in one’s position.
32.IT Persevering. Lasting indeed.
32.IT Lasting with-respect-to one’s dao indeed.
32.IT Persevering lasting and-also not climaxing indeed.
32.IT Sun and moon: acquiring heaven and-also enabling lasting and illuminating.
32.IT The four seasons: transforming changes and-also enabling lasting and accomplishing.
32.IT The wise person: lasting with-respect-to one’s dao and-also below heaven changing and accomplishing.
33.PS Beings not permitted to use lasting residing in their place.
63.6b Is it permitted to last indeed?
Latter, CI: this, that, what was last spoken of.
7.IT Using the latter rules below heaven.
Laugh, XIAO: manifest joy or mirth; giggle, joke, laugh at, tease; desire; open (of a flower); associated with the Fiery Moment.
13.5a Concording people beforehand cry-out and sob and-also afterwards laugh.
45.1a Like an outcry, one handful activates laughter.
51.IM/1b/IT Laughing words, shrieking, shrieking.
51.1a After laughing words, shrieking, shrieking.
56.6a Sojourning people beforehand laugh, afterwards cryout sobbing.
Laws, FA: rules, norms, statutes; model; obey the law.
4.1b Using correcting by law indeed.
21.PW The earlier kings used brightness in flogging to enforce the laws.
Leak, LOU: seep, drip, ooze out; reveal; forget, let slip.
48.2a The jug cracked, leaking.
Left, ZUO: left side, left hand; East; secondary, assistant, inferior; defective, unfavorable.
7.4a The legions’ left camp.
7.4b The left camp, without fault.
11.PW And uses at left and right the commoners.
36.2a Hiding tending-towards the left thigh.
36.4a/4b Entering tending-towards the left of the belly.
Legions, SHI: army, troops; leader, general, model, master; organize, make functional; take as a model, imitate, follow. Ideogram: heap and whole, turn confusion into a functional unit.
This term is the name of hexagram 7 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
8.HP The legions: grief.
11.6a No availing of legions.
13.5a/5b Great legions control the reciprocal meeting.
15.6a Harvesting: availing of moving legions.
15.6b Permitted availing of moving legions.
16.IM Harvesting: installing feudatories, moving legions.
16.IT And-also even-more installing feudatories to move legions reached.
24.6a Availing of moving legions.
Leopard, BAO: spotted wild cats, beautiful and independent; mark of high-ranking officers.
49.6a/6b A jun zi: a leopard transforming.
Lessen, KUI: diminish, injure, wane; lack, defect.
15.IT Heavenly dao lessens overfilling and-also augments humbling.
50.3a On all sides rain lessens repenting.
Let-go, SHI: lose, let slip; omit, miss, fail; lose control of. Ideogram: drop from the hand.
2.IT Beforehand delusion: letting-go dao.
3/4.HP Sprouting: viewing and-also not letting-go one’s residing.
5.1b Not-yet letting-go constancy indeed.
5.6b Although not an appropriate position, not-yet the great letting-go indeed.
6.4b Not letting-go indeed.
7.1b Letting-go the ordinance: pitfall indeed.
7.4b Not-yet letting-go constancy indeed.
8.2b Not the origin letting-go indeed.
8.5a Letting-go the preceding wildfowl.
8.5b Letting-go the preceding wildfowl.
9.2b Truly not the origin letting-go indeed.
11.4b Altogether letting-go the substance indeed.
17.1b Not letting-go indeed.
17.2a Letting-go the respectable husband.
17.3a Letting-go the small son.
20.3b Not-yet letting-go dao indeed.
23.3b Letting-go above and below indeed.
27.2b Movement letting-go sorting indeed.
29.1b Letting-go dao: pitfall indeed.
29.6b Six above, letting-go dao.
29.IT Movement: venturing and-also not letting-go one’s trustworthiness.
35.5a/5b Letting-go, acquiring: no cares.
36.6b Letting-go by consequence indeed.
37.3b Not-yet letting-go indeed.
37.3b Letting-go the household’s articulation indeed.
38.2b Not-yet letting-go dao indeed.
41.PS Delaying necessarily possesses a place to let-go.
47.IT Confining and-also not letting-go one’s place: Growing.
50.3b Letting-go one’s righteousness indeed.
52.1b Not-yet letting-go correcting indeed.
52.IT Stirring-up, stilling, not letting-go one’s season.
53.3b Letting-go one’s dao indeed.
56.PS Exhausting the great implies necessarily letting-go one’s residing.
60.2b Letting-go the season: end indeed.
62.IT The solid letting-go the position and-also not in the center.
64.6a Possessing conformity: letting-go that.
Let-in, NA: allow to enter; include, receive, accept, welcome; marry.
4.2a Letting-in the wife, significant.
29.4a Letting-in bonds originating from the window.
Levity, QING: light, soft; gentle, easy; alert, agile; frivolous, unimportant, superficial. Ideogram: cart and stream, empty cart floating downstream.
15/16.HP Humbling: levity.
Libation, CHANG: fermented millet liquor, offered to ancestors or poured out to draw the gods near.
51.IM/ IT Not losing the ladle and the libation.
Lightning, DIAN: lighting flash, electric discharge; sudden clarity; look attentively.
21.PW Thunder and lightning: gnawing and biting.
21.IT Thunder and lightning uniting and-also composing.
55.PW Thunder and lightning altogether culminating. Abounding.
Like, RUO: same as, just as; conform, imitate; adverbial suffix indicating similarity.
1.3a At nightfall awe like in adversity.
20.IM/ IT Possessing conformity like a presence.
30.5a Emerging tears like gushing.
30.5a Sadness like lamenting.
43.3a Like soaked, possessing indignation.
45.1a Like an outcry, one handful activates laughter.
50.PS Skinning beings implies absolutely-nothing like a vessel.
51.PS A lord’s implements imply absolutely-nothing like the long-living son.
55.2a/2b Possessing conformity, like shooting-forth.
57.2a Disorder like, significant.
57.2b Disorder like’s significance.
60.3a Not like articulating, by consequence like lamenting.
Limit, XIAN: boundary, frontier, threshold; restriction, impediment; set a limit, distinguish, separate.
52.3a/3b The bound: one’s limit.
Limp, JIAN: proceed haltingly; lame, weak-legged, afflicted; slow, feeble, weak; unfortunate, difficult. Ideogram: foot and cold, impeded circulation in the feet.
This term is the name of hexagram 39 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
40.HP Limping: heaviness indeed.
Limpid, LIE: pure, clear, clean liquid; wash clean.
48.5a The well: limpid.
Line, COU: line or repair a well; masonry lining the inside of a well.
48.4a/4b The well: lining, without fault.
Liquor, JIU: alcoholic beverages, distilled spirits; spirit which perfects the good and evil in human nature. Ideogram: liquid above fermenting must, separating the spirits.
5.5a Attending tending-towards taking-in liquor.
5.5b Taking-in liquor: Trial, significant.
29.4a/4b A cup of liquor, a platter added.
47.2a/2b Confinement tending-towards liquor taking-in.
64.6a Possessing conformity tending-towards drinking liquor.
64.6b Drinking liquor, soaking the head.
Litigate, YU: legal proceedings, trial, sentence; dispute; take a case to court. Ideogram: two dogs and words, barking arguments at each other.
21.IM Harvesting: availing of litigating.
21.IT Although not an appropriate position, Harvesting avails of litigating indeed.
22.PW A jun zi uses brightening the multitude of standards without daring to sever litigations.
55.PW A jun zi uses severing litigations involving punishment.
56.PW A jun zi uses bright consideration availing of punishment and-also not detaining litigations.
61.PW A jun zi uses deliberating litigations to delay death.
Live-alone, QU: lonely, solitary; quiet, still, deserted.
55.6a/6b Living-alone, one without people.
Locate, ZAI: be at, be situated at, dwell, reside; in, within; involved with, in the process of. Ideogram: earth and persevere, a place on the earth.
1.1b Yang located below indeed.
1.2a/2b Viewing a dragon located in the fields.
1.4a/4b Maybe capering located at the abyss.
1.5a/5b Flying dragon located in heaven.
2.5b Pattern located in the center indeed.
5.2b Inundation located in the center indeed.
5.3b Calamity located outside indeed.
5.IT Venturing located in precedence indeed.
7.2a/2b Locating the legions in the center, significant.
9.2b Hauling-along returning located in the center.
10.6b Spring: significance located above.
11.1b Purpose located outside indeed.
12.1b Purpose located in a chief indeed.
14.PW Fire located above heaven. Great possessing.
16.6b Dim providing located above.
17.4a Possessing conformity, locating in dao, using brightness.
17.4b Possessing conformity, locating in dao.
19.6b Purpose located inside indeed.
20.IT The great: overseeing located above.
24.PW Thunder located in the earth’s center. Return.
26.PW Heaven located in the mountain’s center. The great accumulating.
28.1b The supple located below indeed.
31.1b Purpose located outside indeed.
31.3b Purpose located in following people.
32.6b Rousing persevering located above.
34.PW Thunder located above heaven. The great’s vigor.
37.2a Located in the center, feeding.
37.4b Yielding located in the position indeed.
39.6b Purpose located inside indeed.
39.IT Venturing located in precedence indeed.
46.6b Dim ascending located above.
47.4b Purpose located below indeed.
48.6b Spring, significance located above.
50.6b Jade rings located above.
51.5b One’s affairs located in the center.
54.5b One’s position located in the center.
56.6b Using sojourning located above.
57.2a/6a/6b The root located below the bed.
59.3b Purpose located outside indeed.
59.IT The king thereupon located in the center indeed.
61.2a Calling crane located in Yin.
61.IT The supple located inside and-also the solid acquires the center.
62.5a A prince’s string-arrow grasps someone located in a cave.
63.PW Stream located above fire. Already fording.
64.PW Fire located above stream. Not-yet fording.
Lock-up, JIAO: imprison, lock up the feet; prison, pen.
21.1a/1b Shoes locked-up, submerged feet.
21.6a/6b Is not locking-up submerging the ears?
Loins, YIN: hips, pelvis, lumbar region, kidneys; respect, honor; money belt.
52.3a Attributed to one’s loins.
Long-living, ZHANG: enduring, lasting, constant; extended, long, large; senior, superior, greater; increase, prosper; respect, elevate.
3.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
6.1b Arguing not permitting long-living indeed.
7.5a/5b The long-living son conducts the legions.
11.IT A jun zi’s dao long-living.
12.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
12.IT The small in the person’s dao long-living.
16.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
19.3b Fault not long-living indeed.
19.IT The solid drenched and-also long-living.
23.IT The small in the person long-living indeed.
24.IT The solid: long-living indeed.
33.IT Drenched and-also long-living.
34.6b Fault not long-living indeed.
42.AT Augmenting: long-living enriching and-also not setting-up.
43.6b Completing not permitting long-living indeed.
43.IT The solid long-living, thereupon completion indeed.
44.IT Not permitted association long-living indeed.
51.PS A lord’s implements imply absolutely-nothing like the long-living son.
61.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
62.4b Completion not permitted long-living indeed.
Lord, ZHU: ruler, master, chief, authority; host; domination in the cycle of the Five Transformative Moments. Ideogram: lamp and flame, giving light.
2.IM A lord Harvesting.
25.IT And-also activates a lord with-respect-to the inside.
36.1a A lordly person possesses words.
38.2a/2b Meeting a lord tending-towards the street.
51.PS A lord’s implements imply absolutely-nothing like the long-living son.
51.IT Using activating the offering lord indeed.
55.1a Meeting one’s equal lord.
55.4a/4b Meeting one’s hidden lord.
Lose, SANG: be deprived of, forget; destruction, ruin, death; corpse; lament, mourn; funeral. Ideogram: weep and dead people.
2.IM/ IT Eastern North: losing partnering.
34.5a/5b Losing the goat, tending-towards versatility.
38.1a Losing the horse, no pursuing: originating from returning.
48.IM Without losing, without acquiring.
51.IM Not losing the ladle and the libation.
51.2a A hundred-thousand coins lost.
51.5a Hundred-thousand without loss, possessing affairs.
51.5b The great without loss indeed.
51.IT Not losing the ladle and the libation.
56.3a/3b Losing one’s youthful vassal.
56.6a/6b Losing the cattle, tending-towards versatility.
57.6a/6b Losing one’s own emblem-ax.
62.PW And losing in excess to reach mourning.
63.2a A wife loses her veil.
Love, HAO: affection; fond of, take pleasure in; fine, graceful.
15.IT People’s dao hates overfilling and-also loves humbling.
33.4a Loving retiring.
33.4b A jun zi lovingly retiring.
61.2a I possess a loved wine-cup.
Lowly, BEI: speak and think of oneself humbly; modest, yielding, respectful; decline, decrease; base, mean, contemptible.
15.1b Lowliness uses originating herding indeed.
15.IT Earthly dao: lowly and-also above moving.
15.IT Lowliness and-also not permitted to pass-beyond.
Luminous, BING: bright, fiery, light-giving; clear, evident; alert, intelligent.
49.5b One’s pattern luminous indeed.
Luxuriance, MAO: thriving, flourishing, exuberant; highly developed, elegant. Ideogram: plants and flourish.
25.PW The earlier kings used the luxuriance suiting the season to nurture the myriad beings.
Magic, LING: wonderful, subtle; effectiveness, power, intelligence; life force, vital energy; spirit of a being; wizard, diviner.
27.1a Stowing simply the magic tortoise.
Magnanimous, DUN: generous, honest, sincere; important, wealthy; honor, increase; firm, solid. Ideogram: strike and accept, warrior magnanimous in giving and receiving blows.
19.6a Magnanimity nearing.
19.6b Magnanimity nearing’s significance.
24.5a Magnanimous return.
24.5b Magnanimous return, without repenting.
52.6a Magnanimous bound, significant.
52.6b Magnanimous bound’s significance.
Maidenhood, MEI: girl not yet nubile, virgin; younger sister; daughter of a secondary wife. Ideogram: woman and not-yet.
This term occurs in the name of hexagram 54 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
11.5a Supreme Burgeoning converting maidenhood.
53.HP Converting maidenhood: womanhood’s completion indeed.
Manage, GAN: cope with, deal with; attend to the essential; trunk, stem, spine, skeleton.
18.1a/1b Managing the father’s decay.
18.2a/2b Managing the mother’s decay.
18.3a/3b Managing the father’s decay.
18.5a Managing the father’s decay.
18.5b Managing the father avails of praise.
Man(hood), NAN: a man; what is inherently male; husband, son. Ideogram: field and strength, men’s hard work in the fields.
31.PS Therefore afterwards possessing man and woman.
31.PS Possessing man and woman.
31.IT Manhood below womanhood.
37.IT The man in the correct position reaching the outside.
37.IT Man and woman correct.
38.IT Man and woman: polarizing and-also their purposes interpenetrating indeed.
53/54.HP Infiltrating: womanhood converting awaits manhood moving indeed.
63/64.HP Not-yet fording: manhood’s exhaustion indeed.
Manifest, XIAN: apparent, conspicuous; illustrious; make clear.
8.5a Manifest grouping.
8.5b Manifest grouping’s significance.
Mark-off, BIAN: distinguish by dividing; mark off a plot of land; discern, discriminate, differentiate; discuss and dispute; frame which divides a bed from its stand. Ideogram: knife and acrid, sharp division.
13.PW A jun zi uses sorting the clans to mark-off the beings.
23.2a/2b Stripping the bed, using marking-off.
24.AT Return: the small and-also marking-off with-respect-to beings.
47.AT Confining: actualizing-dao’s marking-off indeed.
64.PW A jun zi uses considerately marking-off the beings residing on all sides.
Martial, WU: warrior, military, warlike; valiant, powerful; strong, stern; Wu is the name of the son of King Wen, who defeated the last Shang emperor and founded the Zhou dynasty. Ideogram: fight and stop, force deterring aggression.
10.3a/3b Martial people activate tending-towards the great in the chief.
49.IT Redressing martially, skinning fate.
57.1a/1b Harvesting: martial people’s Trial.
Master, SHENG: have the upper hand; control, command, win, conquer, check (as in the cycle of the Five Transformative Moments); worthy of, able to.
33.2a From abstaining derives mastering stimulation.
43.1a Going, not mastering: activating fault.
43.1b Not mastering and-also going.
53.5a Completing abstention’s mastering.
53.5b Completing abstention’s mastering, significant.
Matrimonial alliance, HUN GOU: legal institution of marriage; union of two families by marriage.
3.2a In-no-way illegality, matrimonial alliance.
3.4a Seeking matrimonial alliance.
22.4a/4b In-no-way illegality, matrimonial alliance.
38.6a In-no-way illegality, matrimonial alliance.
51.6a Matrimonial alliance possesses words.
Maybe, HUO: possible but not certain, perhaps.
1.4a/4b Maybe capering located at the abyss.
2.3a/3b Maybe adhering to kingly affairs.
6.3a Maybe adhering to kingly affairs.
6.6a Maybe a pouched belt’s bestowing.
7.3a/3b The legions maybe carting corpses.
19/20.HP Maybe associating, maybe seeking.
25.3a Maybe attaching’s cattle.
32.3a Maybe receiving’s embarassment.
41.5a Maybe augmenting it tenfold.
42.2a Maybe augmenting it tenfold.
42.2b Maybe augmenting it.
42.6a/6b Maybe smiting it.
53.4a/4b Maybe acquiring one’s rafter.
61.3a/3b Maybe drumbeating, maybe desisting.
61.3a Maybe weeping, maybe singing.
62.3a/3b Adhering maybe kills it.
Mean, JIAN: low, poor, cheap; depreciate, undervalue; opposite of value, GUI.
3.1b Using valuing the below and the mean.
Measures, DU: rules, regulations, norms; measuring instrument; limit, test; capacity, endurance; interval in music, punctuation in a sentence.
60.PW A jun zi uses paring and reckoning the measures.
60.IT Articulating uses paring the measures.
Meat, RU: flesh of animals; pulp of fruit.
21.3a/5a Gnawing seasoned meat.
Meat-bones, ZI: dried meat with bones; bones left after a meal.
21.4a Gnawing parched meat-bones.
Meet, YU: come on unexpectedly, encounter; occur, happen; pleasant meeting, lucky coincidence; agree.
13.5a/5b Great legions control the reciprocal meeting.
21.3a/3b Meeting poison.
38.2a/2b Meeting a lord tending-towards the street.
38.3b Meeting a solid indeed.
38.4a Meeting Spring, husbanding.
38.6a Going meets rain, by consequence significant.
38.6b Meeting rain’s significance.
43/44.HP Coupling: meeting indeed.
43/44.HP The supple meets the solid indeed.
43.3a Solitary going, meeting rain.
44.PS Breaking-up necessarily possesses meeting.
44.PS Coupling implies meeting indeed.
44.IT Coupling. Meeting indeed.
44.IT The supple meets the solid indeed.
44.IT Heaven and earth reciprocally meeting.
44.IT The solid meets the center’s correctness.
45.PS Beings reciprocally meeting and-also afterwards assembling.
47/48.HP confining: reciprocal meeting indeed.
55.1a Meeting one’s equal lord.
55.4a/4b Meeting one’s hidden lord.
62.2a Meeting one’s grandmother.
62.2a Meeting one’s servant.
62.4a/4b Nowhere exceeding, meeting it.
62.6a/6b Nowhere meeting, exceeding it.
Melancholy, MEN: sad, unhappy, chagrined, heavy-hearted. Ideogram: gate and heart, the heart confined or melancholy as gate to the heart.
28.PW And retiring from the age without melancholy.
Melon, GUA: general term for melon, gourd, squash, cucumber; symbol of heaven and earth, the cosmos.
44.5a Using osier to enwrap melons.
Merely, ZHI: only, just, simply; respect, venerate.
24.1a Without merely repenting.
29.5a Merely already evened.
Metallic, JIN: all things pertaining to metal, particularly gold; smelting and casting; perfection, richness; autumn, West, sunset; one of the Five Transformative Moments.
4.3a Viewing a metallic husband.
21.4a Acquiring a metallic arrow.
21.5a Acquiring yellow metal.
44.1a/1b Attachment tending-towards a metallic chock.
47.4a Confinement tending-towards a metallic chariot.
50.5a The vessel’s yellow ears, metallic rings.
Mile, LI: measure of distance, about 600 meters; street, native village, community.
51.IM/ IT The shake scares a hundred miles.
Mingle, JIAO: blend with, communicate, join, exchange; trade; copulation; friendship. Ideogram: legs crossed.
3.IT Solid and supple begin to mingle and-also in heaviness generate.
11.PW Heaven and earth mingling. Compenetration.
11.IT By consequence of that heaven and earth mingling and-also the myriad beings interpenetrating indeed.
11.IT Above and below mingling and-also their purposes concording indeed.
12.PW Heaven and earth not mingling. Obstruction.
12.IT By consequence of that heaven and earth not mingling and-also the myriad beings not interpenetrating indeed.
12.IT Above and below not mingling and-also below heaven without fiefdoms indeed.
14.1a Without mingling with harm.
14.1b Without mingling with harm indeed.
14.5a/5b Your conforming: mingling thus.
17.1a/1b Emerging from the gate, mingling possesses achievement.
37.5b Mingling: reciprocal affection indeed.
38.4a Mingling, conforming.
38.4b Mingling, conforming, without fault.
54.IT Heaven and earth not mingling.
Mire, TU: mud, dirt, filth; besmear, blot out. Ideogram: earth and water.
38.6a Viewing a pig bearing mire.
Moat, HUANG: ditch around a city or a fort.
11.6a/6b The bulwark returns tending-towards the moat.
Moon, YUE: moon and moon-cycle, month; menstruation; Yin.
9.6a The moon almost full.
16.IT Anterior sun and moon not exceeding.
19.IM/ IT Culminating tending-towards the eighth moon possesses pifall.
30.IT Sun and moon congregating reaching heaven.
32.IT Sun and moon: acquiring heaven and-also enabling lasting and illuminating.
54.5a The moon almost full, significant.
55.IT The moon overfilling, by consequence taken-in.
61.4a The moon almost full.
More, TUO: another, something else; add to.
8.1a Completion coming, possessing more, significant.
8.1b Possessing more, significant indeed.
28.4a Possessing more: abashment.
Moreover, QIE: further, and also.
29.3a Venturing, moreover reclining.
38.3a One’s person stricken, moreover nose-cut.
40.3a/3b Bearing, moreover riding.
43.4a/4b One’s moving the camp moreover.
44.3a/3b One’s moving the camp moreover.
Mother, MU: mother, maternal, feminine; child-bearing and nourishing. Ideogram: two breasts.
18.2a/2b Managing the mother’s decay.
35.2a Tending-towards one’s kingly mother.
37.IT Father and mother’s designation.
Motive, QING: true nature; feelings, desires, passions; sincere, true, real; state of affairs, circumstances. Ideogram: heart and green, germinated in the heart.
31.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
32.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
34.IT Correcting the great and-also heaven and earth’s motives permitted to view actually.
45.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
Motley, ZA: mingled, variegated, mixed; disorder.
3/4.HP Enveloping: motley and-also conspicuous.
32.AT Persevering: motley and-also not restricting.
Mound, LING: grave-mound, barrow; small hill.
13.3a Ascending one’s high mound.
22.3b Completing abstention’s mound indeed.
29.IT Earth’s venture: mountains, rivers, hill-tops, mounds indeed.
51.2a Climbing tending-towards the ninth mound.
53.5a The swan infiltrating tending-towards the mound.
Mount, DENG: ascend, rise; ripen, complete.
36.6a/6b Initially mounting tending-towards heaven.
61.6a/6b A soaring sound mounts tending-towards heaven.
Mountain, SHAN: mountain; large, immense; limit, boundary; Symbol of the trigram Bound, GEN. Ideogram: three peaks, a mountain range.
4.PW Below the mountain emerges springwater. Enveloping.
4.IT Enveloping. Below mountain possesses venturing.
15.PW The earth’s center possesses mountain. Humbling.
17.6a The king avails of Growing tending-towards the Western mountain.
18.PW The mountain possesses wind below. Decay.
22.PW The mountain possesses fire below. Adorning.
23.PW Mountain adjoining with-respect-to earth. Stripping.
26.PW Heaven located in the mountain’s center. The great accumulating.
27.PW The mountain possesses thunder below. The jaws.
29.IT Earth’s venture: mountains, rivers, hill-tops, mounds indeed.
31.PW The mountain possesses pond above. Conjunction.
33.PW Heaven possesses mountain below. Retiring.
39.PW The mountain possesses stream above. Limping.
41.PW The mountain possesses pond below. Diminishing.
46.4a/4b The king avails of Growing tending-towards the twin-peaked mountain.
52.PW Joined mountains. The bound.
53.PW The mountain possesses wood above. Infiltrating.
56.PW The mountain possesses fire above. Sojourning.
62.PW The mountain possesses thunder above. The small exceeding.
Mourn, AI: grieve, lament over something gone; distress, sorrow; compassion. Ideogram: mouth and clothes, display of feelings.
62.PW And losing in excess to reach mourning.
Mouth, KOU: mouth, mouthful; words going out and food coming into the mouth; entrance, hole, passageway.
27.IM/ IT The origin of seeking mouth’s substance.
31.6b The spouting mouth stimulating indeed.
47.IT Honoring the mouth thereupon exhausted indeed.
Move, XING: move or move something; motivate; emotionally moving; walk, act, do. Ideogram: successive steps.
This term occurs throughout the hexagram texts.
Mud, XI: ground left wet by water, muddy shores; danger; shed tears; nearly.
48.IM/ IT Muddy culmination: truly not-yet the well-rope in the well.
64.IM/ IT The small fox in a muddy ford.
Mulberry-tree, SANG: the tree on which silkworms live; rural place, tranquillity, retirement.
12.5a Attachment tending-towards a grove of mulberry-trees.
Multitude, SHU: crowd, many people; mass, herd; all, the whole.
1.IT Heads emerging from the multitude of beings.
22.PW A jun zi uses brightening the multitude of standards without daring to sever litigations.
35.IM Prospering. A content feudatory avails of bestowing horses to enhance the multitudes.
35.IT That uses a content feudatory availing of bestowing horses to enhance the multitudes.
Munificence, HOU: liberal, kind, generous; create abundance; thick, large. Ideogram: gift of a superior to an inferior.
2.PW A jun zi uses munificent actualizing-dao to carry the beings.
2.IT Space: munificent carrying the beings.
23.PW Above using munificence, below pacifying the situation.
42.1b Below not munificent affairs indeed.
52.6b Using munificence to complete indeed.
Myriad, WAN: ten thousand; countless, many, everyone. Ideogram: swarm of insects.
1.IT The myriad beings’ own beginning.
1.IT The myriad cities conjoining to soothe.
2.IT The myriad beings’ own generation.
3.PS Therefore afterwards the myriad beings’ generation in-truth.
3.PS Overfilling heaven and earth’s interspace implies verily the myriad beings.
7.2b Cherishing the myriad fiefdoms indeed.
8.PW The earlier kings used installing a myriad cities to connect the related feudatories.
11.IT By consequence of that heaven and earth mingling and-also the myriad beings interpenetrating indeed.
12.IT By consequence of that heaven and earth not mingling and-also the myriad beings not interpenetrating indeed.
15.3b The myriad commoners submit indeed.
25.PW The earlier kings used the luxuriance suiting the season to nurture the myriad beings.
27.IT Heaven and earth nourish the myriad beings.
27.IT The wise person nourishes eminence used to extend to the myriad commoners.
31.PS Therefore afterwards possessing the myriad beings.
31.PS Possessing the myriad beings.
31.IT Heaven and earth influence and-also the myriad beings change and generate.
31.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
32.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
38.IT The myriad beings: polarizing and-also their affairs sorted indeed.
45.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
54.IT And-also the myriad beings not rising.
Myself, WU: first person intensifier; the particular person I am; I, my, we, our.
61.2a Myself associating: simply spilling it.
Name, YUE: speak, declare, call. Ideogram: open mouth and tongue.
9.IT Named: the small accumulating.
13.IT Named: concording people.
13.IT Concording people: thus named.
14.IT Named: the great possessing.
21.IT Named: gnawing and biting.
26.3a Named: enclosing the cart, escorting.
47.6a Named: stirring-up repenting possesses repenting.
49.IT Their purposes not reciprocally acquired: named skinning.
Near, LIN: approach or be approached: behold with care, look on sympathetically; condescend; bless or curse by coming nearer; a superior visits an inferior.
This term is the name of hexagram 19 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
See also: Draw-near
20.HP Nearing and overseeing’s righteousness.
Nearby, ER: near, close in space; approach.
51.IT Scaring the distant and-also fearing the nearby indeed.
Necessarily, BI: unavoidably, certainly.
4.PS Beings’ generation necessarily enveloped.
6.PS Drinking and taking-in necessarily possess arguing.
7.PS Arguing necessarily possesses crowds rising-up.
7.6b Necessarily disarraying the fiefdoms indeed.
8.PS Crowds necessarily possess a place to group.
9.PS Grouping necessarily possesses a place to accumulate.
14.PS Associating with people concording implies beings necessarily converting in-truth.
16.PS Possessing the great and-also enabling humbleness necessarily provides.
17.PS Providing necessarily possesses following.
18.PS Using joy in following people implies necessarily possessing affairs.
30.PS Falling necessarily possesses a place to congregate.
36.PS Advancing necessarily possesses a place for injury.
37.PS Injury with-respect-to the outside implies necessarily reversing with-respect-to the household.
38.PS Household’s dao exhausted, necessarily turning-away.
39.PS Turning-away necessarily possesses heaviness.
41.PS Delaying necessarily possesses a place to let-go.
42.PS Diminishing and-also not climaxing necessarily augments.
43.PS Augmenting and-also not climaxing necessarily breaks-up.
44.PS Breaking-up necessarily possesses meeting.
47.PS Ascending and-also not climaxing necessarily confines.
48.PS Confining reaching above implies necessarily reversing to the below.
54.PS Advancing necessarily possesses a place for converting.
55.PS Acquiring one’s place for converting implies necessarily the great.
56.PS Exhausting the great implies necessarily letting-go one’s residing.
62.PS Possessing one’s trustworthiness implies necessarily moving it.
62.4a/4b Going: adversity necessarily a warning.
63.PS Beings possessing excess implies necessarily fording.
Neck, MEI: muscular base of neck, shoulders and arms; source of strength in arms and shoulders; persist.
31.5a/5b Conjunction of one’s neck.
Neighbor, LIN: person living nearby; extended family; assist, support.
9.5a Affluence: using one’s neighbor.
11.4a Not affluence: using one’s neighbor.
15.5a Not affluence: using one’s neighbor.
51.6a Tending-towards one’s neighbor.
51.6b The dreading neighbor, a warning indeed.
63.5a/5b The Eastern neighbor slaughters cattle.
63.5a Not thus the Western neighbor’s dedicated offering.
63.5b Not thus the Western neighbor’s season.
Nest, CHAO: nest; haunt, retreat.
56.6a A bird burns its nest.
Nightfall, XI: day’s end, dusk; late; last day of month or year.
1.3a At nightfall awe like in adversity.
Night, YE: dark half of the 24-hour cycle.
43.2a At night possessing weapons.
Nine, JIU: number nine; transforming whole line; superlative: best, perfect.
1.7b Availing of nines.
14.1b Great possessing, initial nine.
32.2b Nine at second, repenting extinguished.
34.2b Nine at second: Trial, significant.
40.2b Nine at second: Trial, significant.
41.2b Nine at second: Harvesting, Trial.
44.5b Nine at fifth: containing composition.
46.2b Nine at second’s conforming.
51.2a Climbing tending-towards the ninth mound.
57.5b Nine at fifth’s significance.
58.4b Nine at fourth’s joy.
61.1b Initial nine: precaution significant.
64.2b Nine at second: Trial, significant.
No, WU: common term of negation. This term occurs throughout the hexagram texts.
Noble, ZUN: honorable, worthy of respect, eminent. Ideogram: presenting wine to a guest.
14.IT The supple acquires the noble position: the great in the center.
15.AT/ IT Humbling: noble and-also shining.
North, see Eastern North Nose, BI: nose; handle.
21.2a/2b Gnawing flesh, submerging the nose.
Nose-cutting, YI: punishment through loss of public face or honor; distinct from foot-cutting, YE, crippling punishment for serious crime.
38.3a One’s person stricken, moreover nose-cut.
47.5a/5b Nose-cut, foot-cut.
Not, BU: common term of negation. This term occurs throughout the hexagram texts.
Nothing/nowhere, FU: strong negative; not a single thing/place; deny, disapprove; impossible, incorrect.
See also: Absolutely-nothing 13.4a Nowhere controlling aggression.
13.4b Righteousness nowhere controlling indeed.
14.3a The small in the person nowhere controlling.
17.2b Nowhere joining in association indeed.
22.1b Righteously nothing to ride indeed.
34.PW A jun zi uses no codes whatever, nowhere treading.
41.2a Nowhere diminishing, augmenting it.
41.5a Nowhere controlling contradiction.
41.6a/6b Nowhere diminishing, augmenting it.
42.2a Nowhere controlling contradiction.
62.3a Nowhere exceeding, defending-against it.
62.4a/4b Nowhere exceeding, meeting it.
62.6a/6b Nowhere meeting, exceeding it.
Notify, GAO: proclaim, order, decree; advise, inform; accuse, denounce. Ideogram: mouth and ox head, impressive speech.
4.IM/IT The initial oracle-consulting notifies.
4.IM/ IT Obscuring, by consequence not notifying.
11.6a Originating from the capital, notifying fate.
42.3a Notifying the prince, availing of the scepter.
42.4a/4b Notifying the prince, adhering.
43.IM/ IT Notifying originates from the capital.
Not-yet, WEI: temporal negative indicating that something is expected to happen but has not yet occurred.
This term occurs in the name of hexagram 64 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
3.5b Spreading, not-yet shining indeed.
5.1b Not-yet letting-go constancy indeed.
5.6b Although not an appropriate position, not-yet the great letting-go indeed.
7.4b Not-yet letting-go constancy indeed.
9.IT Spreading, not-yet moving indeed.
13.6b Purpose not-yet acquired indeed.
15.6b Purpose not-yet acquired indeed.
16.5b The center not-yet extinguished indeed.
18.4b Going, not-yet acquiring indeed.
19.2b Not-yet yielding to fate indeed.
20.3b Not-yet letting-go dao indeed.
20.6b Purpose not-yet evened indeed.
21.4b Not-yet shining indeed.
23.2b Not-yet possessing association indeed.
25.2b Not tilling the crop. Not-yet affluence indeed.
29.2b Not-yet emerging from the center indeed.
29.5b In the center not-yet the great indeed.
31.4b Not-yet influencing harmful indeed.
31.4b Not-yet the shining great indeed.
35.1b Not-yet acquiescing in fate indeed.
35.6b Dao not-yet shining indeed.
37.1b Purpose not-yet transformed indeed.
37.3b Not-yet letting-go indeed.
38.2b Not-yet letting-go dao indeed.
40.4b Not-yet an appropriate position indeed.
43.5b The center not-yet shining indeed.
44.3b Moving, not-yet hauling-along indeed.
45.2b The center not-yet transformed indeed.
45.5b Purpose not-yet shining indeed.
45.6b Not-yet peaceful above indeed.
47.5b Purpose not-yet acquired indeed.
47.6b Not-yet appropriate indeed.
48.IM/ IT Muddy culmination: truly not-yet the well-rope in the well.
48.IT Not-yet possessing achievement indeed.
49.5a Not-yet an augury, possessing conformity.
50.1b Not-yet rebelling indeed.
51.4b Not-yet shining indeed.
51.6b The center not-yet acquired indeed.
52.1b Not-yet letting-go correcting indeed.
52.2b Not-yet withdrawing from hearkening indeed.
54.2b Not-yet transforming constancy indeed.
54.3b Not-yet appropriate indeed.
56.4b Not-yet acquiring the position indeed.
56.4b The heart not-yet keen indeed.
58.1b Moving, not-yet doubting indeed.
58.4a Bargaining open, not-yet soothing.
58.6b Not-yet shining indeed.
61.1b Purpose not-yet transformed indeed.
63.HP Not-yet fording: manhood’s exhaustion indeed.
Nourish, YANG: feed, sustain, support, provide, care for; generate; raise, grow.
4.IT Enveloping uses nourishing correctness.
5.PS Being’s immaturity not permitted not nourishing indeed.
26.IT Nourishing eminence indeed.
27.PS Beings accumulate, therefore afterwards permitted to nourish.
27.PS The jaws imply nourishing indeed.
27/28.HP The jaws: nourishing correctly indeed.
27.IT Nourishing correctly, by consequence significance indeed.
27.IT Overseeing one’s place of nourishment indeed.
27.IT Overseeing one’s origin: nourishment indeed.
27.IT Heaven and earth nourish the myriad beings.
27.IT The wise person nourishes eminence used to extend to the myriad commoners.
28.PS Not nourished, by consequence not permitted stirring-up.
48.IT The well: nourishing and-also not exhausted indeed.
50.IT And-also the great’s Growing uses nourishing the wise and the eminent.
No ... whatever, FEI: strongest negative; not at all!
32.4b No lasting whatever in one’s position.
34.PW A jun zi uses no codes whatever, nowhere treading.
Nowhere, see Nothing/nowhere Numerous, DUO: great number, many; often.
15.PW A jun zi uses reducing the numerous to augment the few.
26.PW A jun zi uses the numerous recorded preceding words to go and move.
55/56.HP Abounding: numerous anteriority indeed.
Nurse, ZI: care for and protect, act as a mother, love; give birth, raise. Ideogram: child and shelter.
3.2a Woman and son’s Trial: not nursing.
3.2a/2b Ten years, thereupon nursing.
Nurture, YU: give birth; bring up, rear, raise.
4.PW A jun zi uses the fruits of movement to nurture actualizingdao.
18.PW A jun zi uses rousing the commoners to nurture actualizing-dao.
25.PW The earlier kings used the luxuriance suiting the season to nurture the myriad beings.
53.3a/3b The wife pregnant, not nurturing.
Oblations, SI: sacrifices offered to the gods and the dead.
47.2a Harvesting: availing of presenting oblations.
47.5a/5b Harvesting: availing of offering oblations.
Obscure, DU: confuse, muddle; cloudy, turbid; agitated water; annoy through repetition; disrespectful, corrupted.
4.IM/IT Twice, thrice: obscuring.
4.IM/IT Obscuring, by consequence not notifying.
4.IT Obscuring enveloping indeed.
Observe, SHI: see, examine, inspect; consider as; compare, imitate. Ideogram: see and omen, taking what you see into account.
10.3a/3b Squinting enables observing.
10.6a Observing treading: predecessors auspicious.
27.4a A tiger observing: glaring, glaring.
51.6a Observing: terror, terror.
54.2a Squinting enables observing.
Obstruct, PI: closed, stopped; bar the way; obstacle; unfortunate, wicked; refuse, disapprove, deny. Ideogram: mouth and not, blocked communication.
This term is the name of hexagram 12 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
7.1a Obstructing virtue: pitfall.
11.HP Obstruction and compenetration: reversing one’s sorting indeed.
13.PS Beings not permitted to use completing obstruction.
33.4a The small in the person obstructing.
33.4b The small in the person obstructing indeed.
50.1a/1b Harvesting: emerging from obstruction.
Occult, YIN: hide, obscure; hidden from view; mysterious, subtle; retired.
57.AT The root: evaluating and-also occulting.
Offense, ZUI: crime, sin, fault; violate laws or rules; punishment. Ideogram: net and wrong, entangled in guilt.
40.PW A jun zi uses forgiving excess to pardon offenses.
Offer, JI: offer a sacrifice. Ideogram: hand, meat and worship.
47.5a/5b Harvesting: availing of offering oblations.
51.IT Using activating the offering lord indeed.
63.5a Not thus the Western neighbor’s dedicated offering.
Offertory-millet, JI: grain presented to the god of agriculture; presence of the god in the grain.
51.IT Emerging permits using guarding the ancestral temple, the field-altar, the offertory-millet.
Official, GUAN: government official, magistrate, dignitary.
17.1a/1b An official possesses retraction.
Old-age, DIE: seventy or older; aged, no longer active.
30.3a By consequence great oldage’s lamenting.
One, YI: a single unit; number one; undivided, simple, whole; unique; first.
32.AT Persevering: using the one actualizing-dao.
32.5b Adhering to the one and-also completing indeed.
38.6a Carrying souls: the one chariot.
41.3a By consequence diminishing by one person.
41.3a/3b One person moving.
45.1a Like an outcry, one handful activates laughter.
56.5a One arrow extinguishing.
One/one’s, QI: general third person pronoun and possessive adjective; also: it/its, he/his, she/her, they/their.
This term occurs throughout the hexagram texts.
One-sided, PIAN: slanted, inclined to one side; excessive, partial, selfish.
42.6b One-sided evidence indeed.
Ooze, DIE: exude moisture; mud, slime; turbid, tainted.
48.3a/3b The well: oozing, not taking-in.
Open, DUI: an open surface, promoting interaction and interpenetration; pleasant, easy, responsive, free, unhindered; opening, passage; the mouth; exchange, barter; straight, direct; meet, gather; place where water accumulates. Ideogram: person, mouth and vapor, communication through speech.
This term is the name of hexagram 58 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
57.HP The open: viewing, and-also
Oppose, FAN: resist; violate, offend, attack; possessed by an evil spirit; criminal. Ideogram: violate and dog, brutal offense.
5.1b Not opposing heaviness in movement.
26.1b Not opposing calamity indeed.
58.IT Stimulating uses opposing heaviness.
Oracle-consulting, SHI: yarrow stalks and their use in divination.
4.IM/ IT The initial oracle-consulting notifies.
8.IM/ IT Retracing the oracle-consulting: Spring, perpetual Trial.
Ordinance, LÜ: law, regulation; discipline, self-mastery. Ideogram: writing and move, codes that govern action.
7.1a/1b The legions emerging using ordinance.
7.1b Letting-go the ordinance: pitfall indeed.
Origin, ZI: source, beginning, ground; cause, reason, motive; tracing back to the source; oneself, by oneself; spontaneous, intrinsic.
1.PW A jun zi uses originating strength not to pause.
5.3b Originating from my involvement in illegality.
5.4a Emerging originating from the cave.
6.2b Origin below, arguing above.
8.2a/2b Grouping’s origin inside.
8.2b Not the origin letting-go indeed.
9.IM/IT Originating from my Western suburbs.
9.1a/1b Returning to the origin’s dao.
9.2b Truly not the origin letting-go indeed.
10.2b The center not the origin of disarray indeed.
11.6a Originating from the capital, notifying fate.
14.6a The origin in heaven shields it.
14.6b The origin in heaven shields indeed.
15.1b Lowliness uses originating herding indeed.
24.AT Return: using the origin’s knowledge.
24.5b The center uses the origin from the predecessors indeed.
25.IT A solid originating from the outside comes.
27.IM/ IT The origin of seeking mouth’s substance.
27.IT Overseeing one’s origin: nourishment indeed.
29.4a Letting-in bonds originating from the window.
35.PW A jun zi uses originating enlightening to brighten actualizing-dao.
37.PW Wind originating from fire emerging. Household people.
38.1a Losing the horse, no pursuing: originating from returning.
40.3b Originating from my involvement with weapons.
41.5b The origin above shielding indeed.
42.2b/6b Origin outside, coming indeed.
42.IT The origin above, the below below.
43.IM/ IT Notifying originates from the capital.
44.5a/5b Possessing tumbling originating from heaven.
55.6b Originating from concealment indeed.
62.5a Originating from my Western suburbs.
Osier, QI: willow branches used to make baskets.
44.5a Using osier to enwrap melons.
Outcry, see Cry-out/outcry Outside, WAI: outer, external; unfamiliar, foreign; ignore, reject; work done outside the home; the upper trigram as indication of the outer aspects of the situation.
5.3b Calamity located outside indeed.
8.4a Outside grouping it.
8.4b Outside grouping with-respect-to eminence.
11.1b Purpose located outside indeed.
11.IT Inside Yang and-also outside Yin.
11.IT Inside persisting and-also outside yielding.
11.IT Inside jun zi and-also outside the small in the person.
12.IT Inside Yin and-also outside Yang.
12.IT Inside supple and-also outside solid.
12.IT Inside the small in the person and-also outside jun zi.
25.IT A solid originating from the outside comes.
31.1b Purpose located outside indeed.
36.IT Inside pattern bright and-also outside supple yielding.
37.PS Injury with-respect-to the outside implies necessarily reversing with-respect-to the household.
37/38.HP Polarizing: outside indeed.
37.IT The man in the correct position reaching the outside.
42.2b/6b Origin outside, coming indeed.
56.IT The supple acquires the center reaching outside and-also yielding reaches the solid.
58.IT The solid in the center and-also the supple outside.
59.3b Purpose located outside indeed.
59.IT The supple acquires the position reaching outside and-also above concording.
Overbearing, KANG: haughty, fierce, overpowering, rigid, unbending; excessive display of force.
1.6a/6b Overbearing dragon possesses repenting.
62.6b Climaxing overbearing indeed.
Overfill, YING: fill completely; full, at the point of overflowing; excess, arrogance. Ideogram: vessel and overflow.
1.6b Overfilling not permitting to last indeed.
3.PS Overfilling heaven and earth’s interspace implies verily the myriad beings.
3.PS Sprouting implies overfilling indeed.
3.IT Thunder and rain’s stirring-up: plenitude overfilled.
8.1a Possessing conformity: overfilling the jar.
15.PS Possessing the great implies: not permitted using overfilling.
15.IT Heavenly dao lessens overfilling and-also augments humbling.
15.IT Earthly dao transforms overfilling and-also diffuses humbling.
15.IT Soul and spirit harm overfilling and-also bless humbling.
15.IT People’s dao hates overfilling and-also loves humbling.
23.IT A jun zi honors the dissolving pause to overfill emptiness.
29.5a/5b The gorge not overfilled.
29.IT Stream diffusing and-also not overfilling.
41.IT Diminishing, augmenting: overfilling emptiness.
55.IT The moon overfilling, by consequence taken-in.
55.IT Heaven and earth overfilling emptiness.
Overflow, PEI: spread and flow in many directions, like rain or rivers; enlarge; irrigate; luxuriant water plants.
55.3a/3b Abounding: one’s overflowing.
Overrun, QIAN: pass the limit; mistake, transgression, disease.
54.4a Converting maidenhood overruns the term.
54.4b Overrunning the term’s purpose.
Oversee, GUAN: contemplate, observe from a distance; look at carefully, gaze at; a high place from where one sees far, monastery, observatory; intelligence, clairvoyance; scry, divine through liquid in a cup. Ideogram: sight and waterbird, aerial view.
This term is the name of hexagram 20 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
19.HP Nearing and overseeing’s righteousness.
21.PS Permitted overseeing and-also afterwards possessing a place to unite.
22.IT Overseeing reaches the heavenly pattern.
22.IT Overseeing reaches the personal pattern.
23.IT Overseeing symbols indeed.
27.IM/IT Overseeing the jaws.
27.1a/1b Overseeing my pendent jaw.
27.IT Overseeing one’s place of nourishment indeed.
27.IT Overseeing one’s origin: nourishment indeed.
31.IT Overseeing one’s place to influence.
32.IT Overseeing one’s place to persevere.
45.IT Overseeing one’s place to assemble.
Overthrow, FU: subvert, upset, defeat, throw down.
50.4a/4b Overthrowing a princely stew.
Own, ZI: possession and the things possessed; avail of, depend on; property, riches.
1.IT The myriad beings’ own beginning.
2.IT The myriad beings’ own generation.
56.2a Cherishing one’s own.
56.4a/4b Acquiring one’s own emblem-ax.
57.6a/6b Losing one’s own emblem-ax.
Parch, see Energy/parch Pardon, YOU: forgive, indulge, relax; lenient.
40.PW A jun zi uses forgiving excess to pardon offenses.
Pare, ZHI: cut away, tailor, carve; form, invent; institution, rule; limit, prevent. Ideogram: knife and incomplete.
15.AT Humbling: using paring the codes.
32.5b The husband and the son, paring righteously.
57.AT The root: actualizing-dao’s paring indeed.
60.PW A jun zi uses paring and reckoning the measures.
60.IT Articulating uses paring the measures.
Parsimonious, JIAN: thrifty; moderate, temperate; stingy, scanty.
12.PW A jun zi uses parsimonious actualizing-dao to expel heaviness.
62.PW And avails of excess to reach parsimony.
Part, GUAI: separate, fork, cut off, flow in different directions; decide, resolve; prompt, certain, settled.
This term is the name of hexagram 43 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
10.5a/5b Parting, treading. Trial, adversity.
44.HP Parting: breaking-up indeed.
Partner, PENG: companion, friend, peer; join, associate for mutual benefit; commercial venture; two equal or similar things. Ideogram: linked strings of cowries or coins.
2.IM/IT Western South: acquiring partnering.
2.IM/IT Eastern North: losing partnering.
11.2a Partnering extinguished.
16.4a Partners join-together suddenly.
24.IM/ IT Partners come, without fault.
31.4a Partners adhere to simply pondering.
39.5a/5b The great’s limping, partners coming.
40.4a Partnering culminating, splitting-off conforming.
41.5a The tortoise’s partnering.
42.2a The tortoise’s partnering
58.PW A jun zi uses partnering with friends to explicate repeatedly.
Passage, GUAN: market gate, customs house, frontier post; limit, crisis, important point.
24.PW The earlier kings used culminating sun to bar the passages.
Pass-beyond, YU: go beyond set time or limits; get over a wall or obstacle.
15.IT Lowliness and-also not permitted to pass-beyond.
Pattern, WEN: intrinsic or natural design, pattern of wood, stone or animal fur; ideograms, the symbols of writing as revelation of the intrinsic nature of things; language, civilization, culture; harmonious, beautiful, elegant, polite.
2.5b Pattern located in the center indeed.
9.PW A jun zi uses highlighting the pattern to actualize-dao.
13.IT Pattern’s brightness uses persistence.
14.IT One’s actualizing-dao: solid persisting and-also pattern brightening.
22.IT The supple comes and-also patterns the solid.
22.IT Apportioning the solid above and-also patterning the supple.
22.IT Heavenly pattern indeed.
22.IT Pattern’s brightness uses stopping.
22.IT Personal pattern indeed.
22.IT Overseeing reaches the heavenly pattern.
22.IT Overseeing reaches the personal pattern.
36.IT Inside pattern bright and-also outside supple yielding.
49.5b One’s pattern luminous indeed.
49.6b One’s pattern beautiful indeed.
49.IT Pattern brightening uses stimulating.
Pattern King, WEN WANG, is the name of the founder of the Zhou dynasty and mythical author of the Yi Jing.
36.IT The Pattern King uses it.
Pause, XI: breathe; rest, repose, a breathing-spell; suspended.
See also: Dissolving pause
1.PW A jun zi uses originating strength not to pause.
17.PW A jun zi uses turning to darkness to enter a reposing pause.
36.5b Brightness not permitted to pause indeed.
46.6a Harvesting: tending-towards not pausing’s Trial.
49.IT Skinning. Stream and fire reciprocally giving pause.
Pay-tribute, JI: compulsory payments; present property to a superior.
45.6a/6b Paying-tribute: sighs, tears, snot.
Peace, AN: quiet, still, settled, secure, contented; calm, tranquilize, console. Ideogram: woman under a roof, a tranquil home.
2.IM Peaceful Trial, significant.
2.IT Peaceful Trial’s significance.
6.4a/4b Retracting, peaceful Trial.
11.PS Therefore afterwards peace.
13.3b Peaceful movement indeed.
23.PW Above using munificence, below pacifying the situation.
32.4b Peacefully acquiring wildfowl indeed.
45.6b Not-yet peaceful above indeed.
60.4a Peaceful articulating, Growing.
60.4b Peaceful articulating’s Growing.
Peak, DING: top of the head, summit, crown; carry on the head; superior.
28.6a Exceeding wading, submerging the peak. Pitfall.
Peep, KUI: observe from hiding; stealthy, furtive.
20.2a Peeping overseeing.
20.2b Peeping overseeing: woman’s Trial.
55.6a/6b Peeping through one’s door.
Pendent, DUO: hanging; flowering branch, date or grape cluster.
27.1a/1b Overseeing my pendent jaw.
People/person, REN: humans individually and collectively; an individual; humankind.
This term occurs in the name of hexagrams 13 and 37 and recurs throughout their texts. It also occurs in:
1.2a/5a Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
1.5b The great in the person creative indeed.
4.1a/1b Harvesting: availing of punishing people.
5.6a Possessing not invited visitors: three people come.
6.IM/ IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
6.2a People, three hundred doors.
7.IM The respectable person, significant.
7.6a/6b The small in the person, no availing of.
8.3a/3b Grouping’s in-no-way people.
8.5a/5b The capital’s people not admonished.
10.IM Not snapping at people.
10.2a/2b Shady people: Trial, significant.
10.3a Snapping at people: pitfall.
10.3a/3b Martial people activate tending-towards the great in the chief.
10.3b Snapping at people’s pitfall.
10.IT Not snapping at people. Growing.
11.IT Inside jun zi and-also outside the small in the person.
11.IT The small in the person’s dao dissolving indeed.
12.IM/ IT Obstruction’s in-no-way people.
12.2a The small in the person significant.
12.2a/2b The great in the person obstructed.
12.5a The great in the person’s significance.
12.5b To the great in the person belongs significance.
12.IT Inside the small in the person and-also outside jun zi.
12.IT The small in the person’s dao long-living.
14.PS Associating with people concording implies beings necessarily converting in-truth.
14.HP Concording people: connecting indeed.
14.3a The small in the person nowhere controlling.
14.3b The small in the person harmful indeed.
15.IT People’s dao hates overfilling and-also loves humbling.
16.IT The wise person uses yielding and stirring-up.
18.PS Using joy in following people implies necessarily possessing affairs.
20.1a The small in the person: without fault.
20.1b The small in the person’s dao indeed.
20.IT The wise person uses spirit dao to set-up teaching.
22.IT Personal pattern indeed.
22.IT Overseeing reaches the personal pattern.
23.5a/5b Using house people’s favor.
23.6a/6b The small in the person strips the hut.
23.IT The small in the person long-living indeed.
25.3a Moving people’s acquiring.
25.3a Capital people’s calamity.
25.3b Moving people acquire cattle.
25.3b Capital’s people, calamity indeed.
27.IT The wise person nourishes eminence used to extend to the myriad commoners.
30.PW The great in the person uses consecutive brightening to illuminate tending-towards the four sides.
31.PW A jun zi uses emptiness to acquiesce the people.
31.3b Purpose located in following people.
31.IT The wise person influences people’s heart and-also below heaven harmonizes evenness.
32.5a The wife’s people, significant.
32.5b The wife’s people: Trial, significant.
32.IT The wise person: lasting with-respect-to one’s dao and-also below heaven changing and accomplishing.
33.PW A jun zi uses distancing the small in the person.
33.4a The small in the person obstructing.
33.4b The small in the person obstructing indeed.
34.3a/3b The small in the person avails of vigor.
36.1a A lordly person possesses words.
38.HP Household people: inside indeed.
38.1a/1b Viewing hatred in the person.
38.3a One’s person stricken, moreover nose-cut.
39.IM/6a/6b/ IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
40.5a Possessing conformity tending-towards the small in the person.
40.5b The small in the person withdraws indeed.
41.3a Three people moving.
41.3a By consequence diminishing by one person.
41.3a/3b One person moving.
45.IM Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
45.IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person. Growing.
46.IM/ IT Availing of viewing the great in the person.
47.IM/ IT Trial: the great in the person, significant.
49.5a/5b The great in the person: a tiger transforming.
49.6a/6b The small in the person skins the face.
49.IT Yielding reaches heaven and-also the correspondence reaches people.
50.IT The wise person’s Growing uses presenting to the supreme above.
52.IM Not viewing one’s people.
52.IT Moving one’s chambers, not viewing one’s people.
54.2a/2b Harvesting: shady people’s Trial.
54.IT The beginning of a person’s completion.
55.6a/6b Living-alone, one without people.
55.IT And-also even-more with-respect-to reaching people.
56.6a Sojourning people beforehand laugh, afterwards cryout sobbing.
57.IM/ IT Harvesting: viewing the great in the person.
57.1a/1b Harvesting: martial people’s Trial.
58.IT That uses yielding reaching heaven and-also correspondence reaching people.
63.3a The small in the person, no availing of.
Permit, KE: possible because in harmony with an inherent principle; capable of; approve, authorize. Ideogram: mouth and breath, silent consent.
See also: Beings not permitted (to use)
1.6b Overfilling not permitting to last indeed.
1.7b Heavenly actualizing-dao not permitting activating the head indeed.
2.3a/3b Containing composition permits Trial.
3.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
5.PS Being’s immaturity not permitted not nourishing indeed.
6.1b Arguing not permitting long-living indeed.
6.IT Arguing not permitting accomplishment indeed.
7.IT Actually permitted using kinghood.
12.PW And not permitting splendor in using benefits.
12.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
15.PS Possessing the great implies: not permitted using overfilling.
15.6b Permitted availing of moving legions.
15.IT Lowliness and-also not permitted to pass-beyond.
16.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
18.2a Not permitting Trial.
18.6b Purpose permitted by consequence indeed.
19.PS Possessing affairs and-also afterwards permitted the great.
20.PS The beings’ great, therefore afterwards permitted overseeing.
20.2b Truly permitting the demoniac indeed.
21.PS Permitted overseeing and-also afterwards possessing a place to unite.
23.6b Completing not permitted availing of indeed.
25.4a Permitting Trial.
25.4b Permitting Trial, without fault.
25.5b Not permitted testing indeed.
26.PS Possessing without entanglement, therefore afterwards permitted accumulating.
27.PS Beings accumulate, therefore afterwards permitted to nourish.
27.5a Not permitted to wade the great river.
28.PS Not nourished, by consequence not permitted stirring-up.
28.3b Not permitted to use the possession of bracing indeed.
28.5b Is it permitted to last indeed?
28.5b Truly permitting the demoniac indeed.
28.6b Not permitted fault indeed.
29.IT Heaven’s venture: not permitting ascending indeed.
30.3b Is it permitted to last indeed?
31.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
32.PS Not permitted to use not lasting indeed.
32.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
33.3b Not permitted the great in affairs indeed.
34.IT Correcting the great and-also heaven and earth’s motives permitted to view actually.
36.3a Not permitted affliction, Trial.
36.5b Brightness not permitted to pause indeed.
40.3b Truly permitting the demoniac indeed.
41.IM/IT Without fault, permitting Trial.
41.IM/IT Two platters permit availing of presenting.
41.4b Truly permitting joy indeed.
43.6b Completing not permitting long-living indeed.
44.IT Not permitted association long-living indeed.
45.IT And-also heaven and earth and the myriad beings’ motives permitted to view actually.
48.3a Permitting availing of drawing-water.
49.PS The well’s dao not permitting not skinning.
49.1b Not permitted to use possessing activity indeed.
51.IT Emerging permits using guarding the ancestral temple, the field-altar, the offertory-millet.
53.6a Its feathers permit availing of activating the fundamentals.
53.6b Its feathers permit availing of activating the fundamentals, significant.
53.6b Not permitting disarray indeed.
53.IT Permitted to use correcting the fiefdoms indeed.
55.3b Not permitted the great in affairs indeed.
55.3b Completing, not permitted availing of indeed.
60.IM/ IT Bitter articulating not permitting Trial.
61.6b Is it permitted long-living indeed?
62.IM Permitted the small in affairs.
62.IM Not permitted the great in affairs.
62.1b Not permitted thus, is it indeed?
62.2b A servant not permitted exceeding indeed.
62.4b Completion not permitted long-living indeed.
62.IT That uses not permitting the great in affairs indeed.
63.6b Is it permitted to last indeed?
64.PS Beings not permitted exhausting indeed.
Perpetual, YONG: continual, everlasting, eternal. Ideogram: flowing water.
2.7a Harvesting perpetual Trial.
2.7b Availing of sixes: perpetual Trial.
6.1a/1b Not a perpetual place, affairs.
8.IM/ IT Retracing the oracle-consulting: Spring, perpetual Trial.
22.3a Perpetual Trial, significant.
22.3b Perpetual Trial’s significance.
42.2a Perpetual Trial, significant.
45.5a Spring, perpetual Trial.
52.1a Harvesting: perpetual Trial.
54.PW A jun zi uses perpetually completing to know the cracked.
62.4a No availing of perpetual Trial.
Persevere, HENG: continue in the same way or spirit; constant, habitual, regular; self-renewing.
This term is the name of hexagram 32 and recurs throughout its texts. It also occurs in:
5.1a Harvesting: availing of perseverance.
5.1b Harvesting: availing of perseverance, without fault.
16.5a/5b Persevering, not dying.
31.HP Persevering: lasting indeed.
37.PW A jun zi uses words to possess beings and-also movement to possess perseverance.
42.6a Establishing the heart, no persevering.
54.1b Using perseverance indeed.
Persist, JIAN: tenacious, persevering; strong, robust, dynamic; constant as the motion of heavenly bodies in their orbits; Action of the trigram Force, QIAN.
1.PW Heaven moves persistently.
5.IT Solid persisting and-also not falling.
6.IT Venturing and-also persisting.
9.IT Persistence and-also root.
11.IT Inside persisting and-also outside yielding.
13.IT Pattern’s brightness uses persistence.
14.IT One’s actualizing-dao: solid persisting and-also pattern brightening.
25.IT Stirring-up and-also persisting.
26.IT Solid persisting: staunch substance, resplendent shining.
26.IT Ability to stop and persist.
43.IT Persisting and-also stimulating.
Person, see People/person Petrify, SHI: become stone or stony; rocks, stones; firm, decided; barren, sterile.
16.2a The cuirass tends-towards petrification.
47.3a Confinement tending-towards petrification.
Petty, JIAN: little, small, insignificant.
22.5a A roll of plain-silk: petty, petty.
Pheasant, ZHI: beautiful bird associated with the trigram Radiance, LI; embrasures on ramparts and forts; arrange, put in order.
50.3a The pheasant’s juice not taken-in.
56.5a Shooting a pheasant.
Pig, SHI: all swine, symbol of wealth and good fortune, associated with the Streaming Moment.