Hexagram 37 家人, Line 3
家人
Hexagram 37 · third line, undivided (nine)
家人嗃嗃，悔厲吉；婦子嘻嘻，終吝。
The third line, undivided, shows its subject (treating) the members of the household with stern severity. There will be occasion for repentance, there will be peril, (but) there will (also) be good fortune. If the wife and children were to be smirking and chattering, in the end there would be occasion for regret.
James Legge (1882), public domain.
Small image (小象)
家人嗃嗃，未失也；婦子嘻嘻，失家節也。
If only this line changes, hexagram 37 becomes hexagram 42.
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Character glossary
- 家jiāhouse, home, residence; family
- 人rénman, person; people
- 嗃hèto flute
- 悔huǐto regret, to repent, to show remorse
- 厲lìwhetstone; to grind, to sharpen, to whet
- 吉jílucky, propitious, good
- 婦fùmarried woman; wife
- 子zison, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thin
- 嘻xīhappy, giggling, laughing; an interjecti
- 終zhōngend; finally, in the end
- 吝lìnstingy, miserly; parsimonious
- 未wèinot yet; 8th terrestrial branch
- 失shīto lose; to make a mistake, to neglect
- 也yěalso, too
- 節jiéfestival; knot, joint; segment; to econo
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.