Hexagram 33 遯, Line 1
遯
Hexagram 33 · first line, divided (six)
遯尾，厲，勿用有攸往。
The first line, divided, shows a retiring tail. The position is perilous. No movement in any direction should be made.
James Legge (1882), public domain.
Small image (小象)
遯尾之厲，不往何災也。
If only this line changes, hexagram 33 becomes hexagram 13.
← Hexagram 33 遯: judgment and all lines
Character glossary
- 遯dùndeceive, hide, conceal; flee; hexagram ䷠
- 尾wěitail; extremity, end; back, rear
- 厲lìwhetstone; to grind, to sharpen, to whet
- 勿wùmust not, do not; without, never
- 用yòngto use, to employ, to apply; use
- 有yǒuto have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 攸yōudistant, far; adverbial prefix
- 往wǎngto go, to depart; past, former
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 何héwhat, why, where, which, how
- 災zāidisaster, catastrophe, calamity
- 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.