Hexagram 5 需, Line 2
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Hexagram 5 · second line, undivided (nine)
需于沙，小有言，終吉。
The second line, undivided, shows its subject waiting on the sand (of the mountain stream). He will (suffer) the small (injury of) being spoken (against), but in the end there will be good fortune.
James Legge (1882), public domain.
Small image (小象)
需于沙，衍在中也。雖小有言，以吉終也。
If only this line changes, hexagram 5 becomes hexagram 63.
← Hexagram 5 需: judgment and all lines
Character glossary
- 需xūto need, to require; must
- 于yúat, in, on; to, from; alas!
- 沙shāsand, gravel, pebbles; granulated
- 小xiǎosmall, tiny, insignificant
- 有yǒuto have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 言yánwords, speech; to speak, to say
- 終zhōngend; finally, in the end
- 吉jílucky, propitious, good
- 衍yǎnto overflow; to spread out
- 在zàiat, in, on; to exist; used to indicate t
- 中zhōngcentral; center, middle; amidst; to hit
- 也yěalso, too
- 雖suīalthough, even though
- 以yǐaccording to; so as to; because of; then
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.