Hexagram 5 需, Line 4
需
Hexagram 5 · fourth line, divided (six)
需于血，出自穴。
The fourth line, divided, shows its subject waiting in (the place of) blood. But he will get out of the cavern.
James Legge (1882), public domain.
Small image (小象)
需于血，順以聽也。
If only this line changes, hexagram 5 becomes hexagram 43.
← Hexagram 5 需: judgment and all lines
Character glossary
- 需xūto need, to require; must
- 于yúat, in, on; to, from; alas!
- 血xuèblood
- 出chūto go out, to send out; stand; produce
- 自zìself; private, personal; from
- 穴xuécave, den, hole
- 順shùnto submit to, to obey, to go along with
- 以yǐaccording to; so as to; because of; then
- 聽tīngto hear, to listen; to understand; to ob
- 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.
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