Hexagram 62 小過, Line 5
小過
Hexagram 62 · fifth line, divided (six)
密雲不雨，自我西郊，公弋取彼在穴。
The fifth line, divided, (suggests the idea) of dense clouds, but no rain, coming from our borders in the west. It also (shows) the prince shooting his arrow, and taking the bird in a cave.
James Legge (1882), public domain.
Small image (小象)
密云不雨，已上也。
If only this line changes, hexagram 62 becomes hexagram 31.
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Character glossary
- 密mìsecret, confidential; intimate, close; d
- 雲yúncloud; to say, to speak
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 雨yǔrain
- 自zìself; private, personal; from
- 我wǒI, me, my; our, us
- 西xīwest, western, westward
- 郊jiāosuburbs, outskirts; wasteland, open spac
- 公gōngfair, equitable; public; duke
- 弋yìto catch, to arrest; to shoot with a bow
- 取qǔto take, to receive, to obtain; to selec
- 彼bǐthat, those, the other
- 在zàiat, in, on; to exist; used to indicate t
- 穴xuécave, den, hole
- 云yúncloud; to say, to speak
- 已yǐalready; finished; to stop; then, afterw
- 上shàngabove, on top, superior; to go up; to at
- 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.