Hexagram 3 屯, Line 5
屯
Hexagram 3 · fifth line, undivided (nine)
屯其膏；小貞吉，大貞凶。
The fifth line, undivided, shows the difficulties in the way of (its subject's) dispensing the rich favours that might be expected from him. With firmness and correctness there will be good fortune in small things; (even) with them in great things there will be evil.
James Legge (1882), public domain.
Small image (小象)
屯其膏，施未光也。
If only this line changes, hexagram 3 becomes hexagram 24.
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Character glossary
- 屯túnvillage, hamlet; camp; station
- 其qíhis, her, its, their; that
- 膏gāogrease, fat; ointment, paste
- 小xiǎosmall, tiny, insignificant
- 貞zhēnvirtuous, chaste, pure; loyal
- 吉jílucky, propitious, good
- 大dàbig, great, vast, high, deep
- 凶xiōngculprit; murder; bad, sad
- 施shīto grant, to bestow; to act; surname
- 未wèinot yet; 8th terrestrial branch
- 光guānglight; bright, brilliant; only, merely
- 也yěalso, too
Data: English Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0); Chinese Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.