夬
guai4Mathews: 3535GSR: 312a
Dictionary Definition
(to be) decisive, resolute, certain, committed, resolved, determined, decided, serious; (to) determine, decide, resolve, commit (to), indict, execute, cut off, censure, displace, purge, uproot, eradicate, divide, part ways, make a breach (s, ed, ing); (a, the) disclosure, resolution, decision (to), decisiveness, satiety; certainly, seriously, decisively, resolutely,
Radical: 37+1 | First occurrence: Hexagram 10.5
Concordance & Context (11 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 10.5
5th Line★
determined; decisive, resolute, serious (ly)
夬履，贞厲。
Decisive steps
Persistence is stressful
Stats: 37+1→ 43.0
Gua Ci
decisiveness, resolution, satiety; purging
夬，揚于王庭，孚號有厲。告自邑，不利即戎，利有攸往。
A disclosure at the royal court
A truthful appeal
This will be serious
Inform the home town
Nothing worthwhile in resorting to hostilities
Worthwhile to have somewhere to go
→ 43.3
3rd Line
(is) decided, resolved, committed, serious
壮于頄，有凶。君子夬夬，獨行遇雨，若濡有慍，無咎。
Vigorous in the cheekbones
Presuming the worst
The noble young one is resolved and decided
All alone in advancing, to greet the rain
As if getting wet
Were displeasure
Nothing is wrong
→ 43.3
(in, about) indictment, purging; (and)
壮于頄，有凶。君子夬夬，獨行遇雨，若濡有慍，無咎。
Vigorous in the cheekbones
Presuming the worst
The noble young one is resolved and decided
All alone in advancing, to greet the rain
As if getting wet
Were displeasure
Nothing is wrong
Xiao Xiang 5
decisive
夬履贞厲，位正當也。
10.5x Decisive steps, persistence (is) stressful:
The position (is) correct (and) appropriate
Xiao Xiang 3
(is) resolved
君子夬夬，終無咎也。
43.3x The noble young one (is) resolved (and) decided:
In the end no harm (is) done
(and) decided
君子夬夬，終無咎也。
43.3x The noble young one (is) resolved (and) decided:
In the end no harm (is) done
5th Line
resolved, determined, decided; serious about
莧陸夬夬，中行無咎。
Wild greens on dry land
Determined to uproot
To balance the behavior
Is not a mistake
→ 43.5
(to) purge, displace, uproot, eradicate (ing)
莧陸夬夬，中行無咎。
Wild greens on dry land
Determined to uproot
To balance the behavior
Is not a mistake
Tuan Zhuan
decisiveness (is, means)
夬，決也。剛決柔也。健而説，決而和。揚于王庭，柔乘五剛也。孚號有厲，其危乃光也。告自邑，不利即戎，所尚乃窮也。利有攸往，剛長乃終也。
Decisiveness
(Means) to break through
The firm breaks through the flexible
Dynamic but also persuasive
Breaking through and yet responsive
A disclosure at the royal court:
The flexible rides upon five firm (lines)
A truthful appeal, this will be serious:
This crisis will then be made known
Inform the home town,
Nothing worthwhile (in) resorting to hostilities:
What is valued (would) then be wasted
Worthwhile to have somewhere to go:
Firmness endures and then completes
Xiang Zhuan
decisiveness
澤上於天，夬。君子以施祿及下，居德則忌。
The lake rises into the sky
Decisiveness
The noble young one, accordingly,
Dispenses favor to reach those below
Resting on virtue is thereby avoided
→ 10.5
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