草
cao3Mathews: 6739
Dictionary Definition
No detailed glossary definition available for this character.
Concordance & Context (3 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 03.T
Tuan Zhuan★
in haste, carelessness; with roughness
屯，剛柔始交而難生。動乎險中，大亨贞。雷雨之動滿盈，天造草昧，宜建侯而不寧。
Rallying
The firm (and) the flexible begin to interact and so (come) the trials of new life
Moving through the heart of risk
Much fulfillment (means) persistence
Thunder (and) rain’s activity abounds to excess
The sky creates in haste (and) obscurity
(It is) necessary to enlist delegates, but not (in order) to relax
Stats: 140+6→ 30.T
Tuan Zhuan
(and) (the) herbs, plants
離麗，日月麗乎天，百糓草木麗乎土。重明以麗乎正，乃化成天下。柔麗乎中正，故亨。是以畜牝牛吉。
Arising
(Means) to be conditioned
The sun (and) moon (are) conditioned upon heaven
The hundreds of grasses, the plants
(and) the trees are conditioned upon the earth
Doubled clarity, accordingly, (is) conditioned upon the true
Then transformation completes (all things) under heaven
The flexible (is) conditioned upon the central (and) correct
Given this, fulfillment
And so it is that to care for the cow (is) promising
→ 40.T
Tuan Zhuan
(of) plants (grasses to shrubs)
觧，險以動，動而免乎險，觧。觧利西南，往得衆也。其來復吉，乃得中也。有攸往，夙吉，往有功也。天地觧而雷雨作，雷雨作而百果草木皆甲坼。觧之時大矣哉！
Release
Crisis leads to movement
Movement then gets free of crisis
Released
Release favors the west to the south:
To go (is) to gain the multitude
One’s coming return (is) promising:
Here to find the center
(In) having somewhere to go, to be prompt (is) promising:
(In) making progress there will be achievement
Heaven (and) earth let loose as thunder (and) rain get to work
Thunder (and) rain go to work, and hundreds of seed pods
Of plants (and) trees, as one, begin to burst
Release’s opportune timing (is) very important now!
→ 03.T
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