泰
tai4Mathews: 6023GSR: 316a
Dictionary Definition
(a, the) (free) interplay, harmony, peace, facility, prosperity, happiness, success, extravagance, grandiosity; smooth interaction; affluence; (to be) harmonizing, prospering, prosperous, pervading, exalted, honorable, superior, extravagant, flowering, flourishing, great, affirming, broad minded, liberal, extensive, large, permeating, pervasive, grand, most, extreme, interactive, peaceful, safe, tranquil; the west wind; (to) communicate, spread out, suffuse, interpenetrate, permeate, pervade (s, ed, ing); greatly 443
Radical: 85+5 | First occurrence: Hexagram 11.0
Concordance & Context (4 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 11.0
Gua Ci★
interplay, harmony; harmonizing, flourishing
泰：小往大來，吉，亨。
Smallness departs, greatness arrives
Promise and fulfillment
Stats: 85+5→ 11.X
Xiang Zhuan
interplay
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
→ 11.0
Tuan Zhuan
interplay
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
Za Gua
interplay, harmonizing, flourishing
Stats: 11.0
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