Hexagram 5 需, Line 3
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Hexagram 5 · third line, undivided (nine)
需于泥，致寇至。
The third line, undivided, shows its subject in the mud (close by the stream). He thereby invites the approach of injury.
James Legge (1882), public domain.
Small image (小象)
需于泥，災在外也。自我致寇，敬慎不敗也。
If only this line changes, hexagram 5 becomes hexagram 60.
← Hexagram 5 需: judgment and all lines
Character glossary
- 需xūto need, to require; must
- 于yúat, in, on; to, from; alas!
- 泥nímud, earth, clay; plaster, paste
- 致zhìto send; to present, to deliver; to caus
- 寇kòubandit, thief; enemy; to invade
- 至zhìreach, arrive; very, extremely
- 災zāidisaster, catastrophe, calamity
- 在zàiat, in, on; to exist; used to indicate t
- 外wàiout, outside, external; foreign; in addi
- 也yěalso, too
- 自zìself; private, personal; from
- 我wǒI, me, my; our, us
- 敬jìngto respect, to honor; respectfully
- 慎shèncautious, prudent
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 敗bàifailure; to decline, to fail, to suffer
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.