Hexagram 50 鼎, Line 2
鼎
Hexagram 50 · second line, undivided (nine)
鼎有實，我仇有疾，不我能即，吉。
The second line, undivided, shows the caldron with the things (to be cooked) in it. (If its subject can say), 'My enemy dislikes me, but he cannot approach me' there will be good fortune.
James Legge (1882), public domain.
Small image (小象)
鼎有實，慎所之也。我仇有疾，終无尤也。
If only this line changes, hexagram 50 becomes hexagram 56.
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Character glossary
- 鼎dǐnglarge, three-legged bronze cauldron
- 有yǒuto have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 實shíreal, true; honest, sincere
- 我wǒI, me, my; our, us
- 仇chóuenemy; hatred, enmity
- 疾jísickness, illness, disease; to envy, to
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 能néngcan, may; capable, full of energy
- 即jípromptly, quickly, immediately
- 吉jílucky, propitious, good
- 慎shèncautious, prudent
- 所suǒplace, location; "that which", a particl
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
- 也yěalso, too
- 終zhōngend; finally, in the end
- 无wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 尤yóuespecially, particularly
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.