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lin4Mathews: 4040GSR: 475t
Dictionary Definition
(a, an, the) embarrassment, disgrace, misery, poverty, humiliation, meanness, baseness, shame, regret, chagrin, inadequacy, wretchedness, deficiency; avarice, stinginess, greed; (to be) embarrassing, disgraceful, poor, humiliating, mean, shameful, regrettable, inadequate, miserly, stingy; miserable, wretched, ashamed, embarrassed, abashed; (too) little, spare, sparing, sparse
Radical: 30+4 | First occurrence: Hexagram 03.3
Concordance & Context (25 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 03.3
3rd Line★
(is, would be) embarrassing, humiliating
即鹿無虞，惟入于林中。君子幾不如舍，往吝。
Pursuing the deer without preparation or forester*
All alone, going into the heart of the forest
The noble young one is discerning
Which is not the same thing as quitting
To proceed would be embarrassing
Stats: 30+4→ 04.1
1st Line
(is) (a) disgrace, embarrassment, humiliation
發蒙，利用刑人，用説桎梏，以往吝。
Delivering the inexperienced
It is worthwhile and useful to discipline another
If practiced to remove the shackles and cuffs
But for this to continue is a disgrace
→ 04.4
4th Line
embarrassment, wretchedness; (a) shame
困蒙，吝。
Afflicted by ignorance
A shame
→ 11.6
6th Line
(is) embarrassing, humiliating, disgraceful "
城復于隍，勿用師，自邑告命，贞吝。
The city wall falls back into the moat
Do not advance the military
From within one’s own district, explain the orders
To persist is disgraceful
→ 13.2
2nd Line
embarrassment, humiliation (ing); poverty
同人于宗，吝。
Fellowship with others only within the clan
Embarrassing
→ 18.4
4th Line
disgrace, embarrassment, shame, humiliation
裕父之蠱，往見吝。
Indulging father’s fixations
To continue meets with disgrace
→ 20.1
1st Line
(an) embarrassment, humiliation, disgrace
童觀，小人無咎，君子吝。
Childlike perspective
For little people, no blame
For the noble young one, an embarrassment
→ 03.3
Xiao Xiang 3
(is) embarrassment
即鹿無虞，以從禽也。君子舍之，往吝窮也。
03.3x Pursuing the deer without preparation (or forester):
In order to follow the game
* The noble young one gives this up
To proceed (is) embarrassment (and) futility
Xiao Xiang 4
shame
困蒙之吝，獨遠實也。
04.4x The affliction (of) ignorance leads to shame:
Abandoned (and) far from reality
Xiao Xiang 2
(an) embarrassiing
同人于宗，吝道也。
13.2x Fellowship with others (only) within the clan:
An embarrassing course
3rd Line
embarrassment, chagrin; embarrassing
噬臘肉，遇毒，小吝，無咎。
Biting into preserved meat
Encountering decay
A little embarrassing
But no blame
→ 03.3
5th Line
embarrass, humiliate (ing, ed, ment, ion); ashamed
賁于丘園，束帛戔戔，吝，終吉。
Dressed up amidst hills and gardens
One’s gift bundle of silk is but a shabby remnant
Embarrassing
But in the end, promising
→ 03.3
4th Line
(then) inadequate(acy); too little; deficiency
棟隆，吉。有它，吝。
The ridgepole holds up
Promising
To take much more, then deficiency
→ 03.3
3rd Line
(is) embarrassing, regrettable, wretchedness
咸其股，執其隨，往吝。
Persuaded in one’s loins
Managing those consequences
To continue thus is wretchedness
→ 03.3
3rd Line
(is) embarrassing(ment), humiliating(ion) "
不恆其德，或承之羞。贞吝。
Lacking continuity in one’s character
Somehow continuing in such unworthiness
What persists is embarrassment
→ 03.3
6th Line
(is) embarrassment; (a) disgrace, shame "
晋其角，維用伐邑。厲吉，無咎。贞吝。
Advancing those antlers
Limit the practice to discipline of the home town
That harshness is timely
Is not to be blamed
But to persist is a disgrace
→ 03.3
3rd Line
disgrace, humiliation, shame, embarrassment
家人嗃嗃，悔厲吉。婦子嘻嘻，終吝。
Family members scolded severely
Regrettable harshness
Yet opportune
But wife and child smirking and mocking
Ends in disgrace
→ 03.3
3rd Line
(is) embarrassing, humiliating, shameful "
負且乘，致寇至，贞吝。
Shouldering baggage while riding
Inviting robbers to approach
Persistence is embarrassing
→ 03.3
6th Line
embarrassing, disgraceful, poor; (a) shame
姤其角，吝，無咎。
Encountering with those horns
Embarrassing
Though no harm is done
→ 03.3
Xiao Xiang 6
(and) embarrassed
姤其角，上窮吝也。
44.6x Encountering with those horns:
The top (is) exhausted (and) embarrassed
3rd Line
embarrassment, humiliation (ing); shame(ful)
萃如，嗟如，無攸利，往無咎，小吝。
It seems that to congregate is the same as complaining
Not a direction with merit
To continue thus is not harmful
But a little embarrassing
→ 03.3
4th Line
(but) (the, this) embarrassment, humiliation
來徐徐，困于金車，吝，有終。
Approaching slowly and gravely
Oppressed inside a gilded chariot
But this embarrassment will find an outcome
→ 03.3
3rd Line
embarrassing(ment); humiliating(ion)
頻巽，吝。
Recurrent adaptations
Embarrassing
→ 03.3
Xiao Xiang 3
embarrassment
頻巽之吝，志窮也。
57.3x Recurrent adaptation’s embarrassment:
The purpose (is) exhausted
1st Line
embarrassing(ment), humiliating(ion); shame
濡其尾，吝。
Soaking one’s tail
Embarrassing
→ 03.3
Homophones (lin)
林lin2(the) forest(’s); (the) ^ (the) forest, woods臨lin2(a, the) management, undertaking, oversight, responsibility, supervision, commitment, accession, prospect, project, prospectus; exalted approach; (to) supervise, oversee, manage, take command, take charge, commit (oneself), arrive, near, approach, go to, be about to, view from above, look down on, look in 433 on, inspect, condescend to, favor (s, ed, ing); (to be) temporary, provisional, ad hoc, near to, about to, on the brink of, imminent, at hand; [rolling up sleeves, getting down and dirty]隣lin2(a, the) neighbor, extended family, associate, assistant, connection; vicinity, locality, (one’s) neighborhood; (to be) nearby, neighboring, in the neighborhood, local, next, contiguous, adjacent, in the vicinity of, close by
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