Hexagram 57 巽, Line 5
巽
Hexagram 57 · fifth line, undivided (nine)
貞吉悔亡，无不利。无初有終，先庚三日，後庚三日，吉。
The fifth line, undivided, shows that with firm correctness there will be good fortune (to its subject). All occasion for repentance will disappear, and all his movements will be advantageous. There may have been no (good) beginning, but there will be a (good) end. Three days before making any changes, (let him give notice of them); and three days after, (let him reconsider them). There will (thus) be good fortune.
James Legge (1882), public domain.
Small image (小象)
九五之吉，位正中也。
If only this line changes, hexagram 57 becomes hexagram 18.
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Character glossary
- 貞zhēnvirtuous, chaste, pure; loyal
- 吉jílucky, propitious, good
- 悔huǐto regret, to repent, to show remorse
- 亡wángdeath, destruction; to lose; to perish
- 无wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 利lìgains, advantage, profit, merit
- 初chūbeginning, initial, primary
- 有yǒuto have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 終zhōngend; finally, in the end
- 先xiānfirst, former, previous
- 庚gēngage; 7th heavenly stem
- 三sānthree
- 日rìsun; day; daytime
- 後hòuafter; behind, rear; descendants
- 九jiǔnine
- 五wǔfive; surname
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
- 位wèiseat, throne; rank, status; position, lo
- 正zhèngstraight, right, proper, correct, just,
- 中zhōngcentral; center, middle; amidst; to hit
- 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.