交
jiao1Mathews: 0702GSR: 1166a
Dictionary Definition
(to) interact, communicate, interrelate, have reations with, contact, exchange, do business, bargain, trade, deal, (com)mingle, share, join, engage, unite, combine, relate, intertwine, adjoin, mix, flow, hand to, hand over, deliver, pay (s, ed, ing) (with); (a, the) commerce, deal(ings), confluence, convergence, interaction, association, commitment, contract, exchange (of), intercourse, sharing, familiarity (with); meeting place; (to be) interchanged, exchanged, switched, swapped, interacting, mutual, reciprocal, traded, reversed, crossed, contiguous, intersecting; each other
Radical: 8+4 | First occurrence: Hexagram 14.1
Concordance & Context (17 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 14.1
1st Line★
interaction, exchange, commerce, business
無交害，匪咎。艱則無咎。
Having no commerce with trouble
To never be wrong
A hardship, but otherwise not a mistake
Stats: 8+4→ 14.5
5th Line
^ commerce, business, (an) exchange
厥孚交如，威如，吉。
Their truths resemble commerce
If also dignified, promising
→ 17.1
1st Line
to communicate, interact, inter(relate), share
官有渝，贞吉。出門交有功。
Standards will change
Persistence is promising
Leaving the gate to interact has merit
→ 38.4
4th Line
exchange, share, combine, interact (ing)
睽孤，遇元夫，交孚，厲，無咎。
Estranged and alone
Meeting someone unique
Exchanging confidences
The distress
Is no longer wrong
→ 03.T
Tuan Zhuan
(to) interact, unite, engage, interrelate, entwine
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
→ 14.1
Tuan Zhuan
interact, unite, (inter)relate, combine, mingle
泰，小往大來，吉，亨。則是天地交而萬物通也，上下交而其志同也。內陽而外陰，內健而外順，內君子而外小人，君子道長，小人道消也。
Interplay
Smallness departs, greatness arrives,
(With) promise (and) fulfillment:
When this occurs heaven (and) earth interact
And so the myriad beings communicate
High (and) low interact and their purposes converge
Within (is) light and without (is) shadow
Within (is) strength and without (is) acceptance
Within (is) the noble young one and without (are) the common ones
The noble young one’s principles prevail
The common one’s principles fade
→ 14.1
interact, unite, (inter)relate, combine, mingle
泰，小往大來，吉，亨。則是天地交而萬物通也，上下交而其志同也。內陽而外陰，內健而外順，內君子而外小人，君子道長，小人道消也。
Interplay
Smallness departs, greatness arrives,
(With) promise (and) fulfillment:
When this occurs heaven (and) earth interact
And so the myriad beings communicate
High (and) low interact and their purposes converge
Within (is) light and without (is) shadow
Within (is) strength and without (is) acceptance
Within (is) the noble young one and without (are) the common ones
The noble young one’s principles prevail
The common one’s principles fade
Xiang Zhuan
interact, unite, (inter)relate, combine, mingle
天地交，泰。后以財成天地之道，輔相天地之宜，以左右民。
Heaven and earth interact
Interplay
Their heirs, accordingly,
Enrich and complete heaven’s and earth’s natures
Confirming and reciprocating heaven’s and earth’s proper order
And thus supporting and protecting the people
→ 14.1
Tuan Zhuan
interact, unite, (inter)relate, combine, mingle
否之匪人，不利君子贞，大往小來，則是天地不交而萬物不通也，上下不交而天下無邦也。內陰而外陽，內柔而外剛，內小人而外君子，小人道長，君子道消也。
Separating oneself from inferior people
(Who) are not worth a noble young one’s loyalty
Greatness departs, smallness arrives:
When this occurs heaven (and) earth do not interact
And so the myriad beings do not communicate
High (and) low do not interact
And so all under heaven lack government
Within (is) darkness and without (is) light
Within (is) weakness and without (is) strength
Within (are) the common people and without (is) the noble young one
The common people’s principles prevail
The noble young one’s principles fade
→ 14.1
interact, unite, inter(relate), combine, mingle
否之匪人，不利君子贞，大往小來，則是天地不交而萬物不通也，上下不交而天下無邦也。內陰而外陽，內柔而外剛，內小人而外君子，小人道長，君子道消也。
Separating oneself from inferior people
(Who) are not worth a noble young one’s loyalty
Greatness departs, smallness arrives:
When this occurs heaven (and) earth do not interact
And so the myriad beings do not communicate
High (and) low do not interact
And so all under heaven lack government
Within (is) darkness and without (is) light
Within (is) weakness and without (is) strength
Within (are) the common people and without (is) the noble young one
The common people’s principles prevail
The noble young one’s principles fade
Xiang Zhuan
interact, unite, (inter)relate, combine, mingle
天地不交，否。君子以儉德辟難，不可榮以祿。
Heaven and earth do not interact
Separating
The noble young one, accordingly,
conserves virtue and avoids trouble
Not allowing himself luxury in the form of compensation
→ 14.1
Xiao Xiang 1
commerce with
大有初九，無交害也。
14.1x The big domain (of) first nine
(Is a) lack of commerce with trouble
Xiao Xiang 5
^ commerce
厥孚交如，信以發志也。威如之吉，易而無備也。
14.5x Their truths resemble commerce:
Confidence serves to manifest the purposes
Xiao Xiang 1
to interact
官有渝，從正吉也。出門交有功，不失也。
17.1x Standards will change:
To follow the true (is) promising
* Leaving the gate to interact has merit:
Nothing (is) lost
Xiao Xiang 5
(a) sharing, exchange of; interacting with
王假有家，交相爱。
37.5x The sovereign draws near to his family:
Sharing mutual affection
→ 14.1
Xiao Xiang 4
exchanging
交孚無咎，志行。
38.4x Exchanging confidences, nothing (is) wrong:
The aims (are) carried out
Tuan Zhuan
unite, engage, interact, communicate, mingle
歸妹，天地之大義也。天地不交，而萬物不興，歸妹，人之終始也。説以動，所歸妹也。征凶，位不當也。無攸利，柔乘剛也。
Little sister’s marriage
Heaven (and) earth have their meanings in wholeness
(When) heaven (and) earth do not interact
Then the myriad beings do not come to be
Little sister’s marriage (is) humanity’s end (and) beginning
Satisfaction (as) a way to move
(Is) the reason for little sister’s marriage
To go boldly (is) inauspicious:
The dignity is not appropriate
Not a direction with merit:
The yielding takes advantage of the firm
→ 14.1
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