畜
chu4Mathews: 1412GSR: 1018a
Dictionary Definition
(to) take care of, care for, provide for, tend (to), attend (to), keep, raise, feed, nurture, sustain, nourish, rear, bring up, support, shelter, cherish, train, manage, cultivate, retain, restrain, tame, (bring under) control, herd, domesticate, raise beasts, animals, brutes; accumulate, store up, gather, hoard, reserve (s, ed, ing); (a, the) nurture, cultivation, culture, domestication, husbandry, management, training; domestic animal; raising ... beasts; also pronounced xu4 in verb form, to raise animals
Radical: 102+5 | First occurrence: Hexagram 09.0
Concordance & Context (13 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 09.0
Gua Ci★
raising v beasts; concerns, cares
小畜：亨。密雲不雨，自我西郊。
Fulfillment
Thick clouds but no rain
From our western horizon
Stats: 102+5→ 26.0
Gua Ci
raising v beasts; concerns, cares
大畜，利贞，不家食吉，利涉大川。
Worthwhile to be persistent
To not dine at home
Is promising
Worthwhile to cross the great stream
→ 30.0
Gua Ci
(to) care for, take care of, (at)tend to, keep
離，利贞，亨。畜牝牛，吉。
Meriting persistence
Fulfillment
Attend to the cow
Promising
→ 33.3
3rd Line
attending to, caring for; to manage, train
係遁，有疾厲。畜臣妾吉。
Entangled retreat
There will be anxiety and distress
To manage one’s servants and concubines would have been timely.
→ 07.X
Xiang Zhuan
(and) cares for, attends to, takes care of
地中有水，師。君子以容民畜衆。
Within the earth there is water
The militia
The noble young one, accordingly,
Is tolerant towards the people
And cares for the multitude
→ 09.0
Tuan Zhuan
raising v beasts
小畜，柔得位而上下應之，曰小畜。健而巽，剛中而志行，乃亨。密雲不雨，尚往也。自我西郊，施未行也。
Raising small beasts
The flexible finds a place and high (and) low respond to this
So this is called minor concerns
Dynamic and yet adaptive
The firm (is) central and so the intentions (are) carried out
After this, fulfillment
Thick clouds (but) no rain:
Value (any) forward progress
From our western horizon:
The influence is not yet in motion
concerns
小畜，柔得位而上下應之，曰小畜。健而巽，剛中而志行，乃亨。密雲不雨，尚往也。自我西郊，施未行也。
Raising small beasts
The flexible finds a place and high (and) low respond to this
So this is called minor concerns
Dynamic and yet adaptive
The firm (is) central and so the intentions (are) carried out
After this, fulfillment
Thick clouds (but) no rain:
Value (any) forward progress
From our western horizon:
The influence is not yet in motion
Xiang Zhuan
raising v beasts
風行天上，小畜。君子以懿文德。
The wind travels high in the sky
Raising small beasts
The noble young one, accordingly,
trains and refines the character
→ 09.0
Tuan Zhuan
raising v beasts
大畜，剛健篤實輝光，日新其德，剛上而尚賢，能止健，大正。不家食吉，養賢。利涉大川，應乎天。
“Vowing to train at chariot and defense,” which would preserve some of the impli-
cation of dedicated sacrifice suggested by the Zhi Gua.
Xiang Zhuan
raising v beasts
天在山中，大畜。君子以多識前言往行，以畜其德。
Heaven dwells in the midst of the mountain
Raising great beasts
The noble young one makes use of large stores of knowledge
of prior ideas and past deeds
With which to develop such character
→ 09.0
to train, develop, cultivate, attend to, nurture
天在山中，大畜。君子以多識前言往行，以畜其德。
Heaven dwells in the midst of the mountain
Raising great beasts
The noble young one makes use of large stores of knowledge
of prior ideas and past deeds
With which to develop such character
Tuan Zhuan
to care for
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
Xiao Xiang 3
managing
係遁之利，有疾厲。畜臣妾疾，不可大事。
33.3x Entangled retreat has distress,
There will be anxiety (and) exhaustion
* Managing (one’s) servants (and) concubines
(would have been) timely:
But not suited to crucial concerns
Homophones (chu)
初chu1(to) begin, start (with) (s, ed, ing); (to be) original, initial, incipient; (a, the) start, beginning, origin, first (step) (s); initially, originally, (at, in) (the) first (place), (at, in) the beginning, at the start, early (on), when first出chu1(to) come out, get out, go out, (of), set out, stand out (from, out of); appear, arise, beget, bring out, deliver, depart, emerge, escape, evolve, exceed, exist, exit, expel, get rid of, go (beyond, past), issue (from, out), leave, occur, proceed, (go/come) forth, (sur)pass, pour out; quit, abandon, eject, reduce, expurgate; reappear, reemerge, remove, rise up, vent; expend, pay (s, ed, ing); (a, the) adventure, departure, emergence, emergency, expression, issue, outcome; (to be) beyond, past, passed, produced, spent; out of/from, outside of; out comes除chu2sets, puts aside, away; makes ready, caches +處chu3(it is, has) settled, stilled, disposed, resolved触chu4(who) butts (against), attacks, rushes "
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