食
shi2Mathews: 5810GSR: 921a
Dictionary Definition
(a, the) food, feed, feast, nourishment, sustenance, subsistence, refreshment, meal, fare, eats; sufficiency; (to) eat (up), have eaten, feast, have feasted, dine, have dined, consume, feed (on, upon), devour, take, partake (from, in), subsist on, draw from, draw upon, drink (from), ingest, swallow, take nourishment; incorporate, appropriate, embody (s, ed, ing); (to be) eaten, consumed, taken in, ingested, devoured, swallowed, eclipsed, diminished, nourished by, nourishing, sustained by, sustaining; wanes
Radical: 184+0 | First occurrence: Hexagram 05.5
Concordance & Context (25 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 05.5
5th Line★
(and) food, sustenance
需于酒食，贞吉。
Waiting at wine and food
Persistence is promising
Stats: 184+0→ 06.3
3rd Line
incorporating, s ubsisting on, sustained by
食舊德，贞厲，終吉。或從王事，無成。
Incorporating long-standing virtues
In order to be steadfast
Distressing, but in the end, auspicious
Yet for someone engaged in the royal service
There is no completion
→ 11.3
3rd Line
no urishment, sustenance, [sufficiency]
無平不陂，無往不復。艱贞無咎，勿恤其孚，于食有福。
There is no level without a slope,
No going without a return
It is difficult to persist with no errors
Do not worry: these are certainties
In nourishment find happiness
→ 23.6
6th Line
(being) eaten, consumed, fed upon; food
碩果不食，君子得輿，小人剝廬。
The ripest fruit is not eaten*
The noble young one gains ground
As the common people tear down their own shacks*
→ 26.0
Gua Ci
dine, eat (ing); meals, fare (v)
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
→ 36.1
1st Line
eating; (a) meal; taking nourishment, food
明夷于飛，垂其翼。君子于行，三日不食。有攸往，主人有言。
Brightness obscured during flight*
Dragging one’s wing
The noble young one in traveling
Goes three days without a meal
When there is somewhere to go
Those in power would gossip
→ 05.5
Xiao Xiang 5
(and) food
酒食贞吉，以中正也。
05.5x (At) wine (and) food, persistence (is) promising:
Making use of the mean(while) correctly
Xiang Zhuan
(a nd) dines, eats, feasts; food, sustenance
雲上於天，需。君子以飲食宴樂。
The clouds rise into the sky
Anticipation
The noble young one, accordingly,
Takes refreshment and sustenance
With peace of mind and cheer
→ 05.5
Xiao Xiang 3
incorporating
食舊德，從上吉也。
06.3x Incorporating long-standing virtues:
Following the superior (is) promising
Za Gua
consuming, devouring, eating, feeding
Stats: 05.5
Tuan Zhuan
dine v
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
(and) eating; food, nourishment
山下有雷，頤。君子以慎言語，節飲食。
Beneath the mountain is thunder
Hungry mouth
The noble young one, accordingly,
is careful with words and expressions
And moderate in drinking and eating
→ 05.5
Xiao Xiang 1
eat ; (to) eat; eating, meals, food
君子于行，義不食。
36.1x The noble young one in traveling:
(Has) reasons not to eat
2nd Line
(and) food, sustenance, nourishment
困于酒食，朱紱方來，利用享祀。征凶，無咎。
Oppressed before wine and food
Scarlet-sashed nobles arrive with direction
Worthwhile and productive to offer up a sacrifice
Initiative seems foreboding
But this avoids mistakes
→ 05.5
Xiao Xiang 2
(and) food
困于酒食，中有慶也。
47.2x Oppressed before wine (and) food:
Balance will have (its) rewards
1st Line
consumed; nourish, refresh (ing, ment)
井泥不食，舊井無禽。
The well’s mud is not consumed
An ancient well with nothing to take
→ 05.5
Xiao Xiang 1
consumed
井泥不食，下也。舊井無禽，時舍也。
48.1x The well’s mud is not consumed:
(It is) at bottom
* An ancient well with nothing to take:
In time, forsaken
3rd Line
(is) consumed; nourish, refresh (ing, ment)
井渫不食，為我心惻，可用汲。王明，並受其福。
The well has been cleaned, but nothing is consumed
Causing our hearts’ sorrow
It is suitable and available to draw from
Were the sovereign made aware,
all might receive of this abundance
→ 05.5
Xiao Xiang 3
(is) consumed
井渫不食，行惻也。求王明，受福也。
48.3x The well (is merely) turbid, (but) nothing (is) consumed:
Passing in sorrow
* Seek the sovereign’s enlightenment:
To receive the abundance
5th Line
to drink, draw (from, upon); partake in
井洌，寒泉食。
The well has a clear, cold spring to drink from
→ 05.5
Xiao Xiang 5
refresh(ing, ment)
寒泉之食，中正也。
48.5x The cold spring holds refreshment:
In the center (and) correct
3rd Line
eaten, consumed, fed upon; food
鼎耳革，其行塞，雉膏不食。方雨虧悔，終吉。
The cauldron’s ears have been altered
Its function is impaired
The pheasant’s rich meat is not eaten
A sudden rain would diminish regrets
In the end, an opportunity
→ 05.5
2nd Line
(and) eat, feast, feed, dine (ing); food
鴻漸于磐，飲食衎衎，吉。
The wild geese advance by degrees to the cliffs
Drinking and eating and honking and honking*
Auspicious
→ 05.5
Xiao Xiang 2
(and) eating
飲食衎衎，不素飽也。
53.2x Drinking (and) eating (and) honking (and) honking:
Not merely filling up
Tuan Zhuan
(is) consumed, devoured; wanes
豐，大也。明以動，故豐。王假之，尚大也。勿憂宜日中，宜照天下也。日中則昃，月盈則食，天地盈虛，與時消息，而況於人乎，況於鬼神乎。
Abundance
(Means) greatness
Intelligence (is) behind movement
Given this, abundance
The sovereign approaches this:
Appreciate the greatness
Do not be anxious, (it) suits the sun (to be at) midday:
Appropriate for illuminating all under heaven
The sun (at) midday, in due order, goes down
The moon (at) full, in due order, (is) consumed
(If) heaven (and) earth fill up (and) empty out
In accord with the time (in both) waning (and) waxing
Then how much more true for humanity!
(And) how much more true for the ghosts and the spirits!
→ 05.5
Homophones (shi)
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