災
zai1Mathews: 6652GSR: 940a
Dictionary Definition
(a, the) disaster, calamity, adversity, hurt, misfortune, crisis, accident, injury, harm, misery, distress, affliction, suffering, disease, misfortune; divine judgment, chastisement, scourge; (to be) adverse, harmful, injurious, unfortunate, ill-omened, ill-timed; (to) suffer (s, ed, ing)
Radical: 86+3 | First occurrence: Hexagram 24.6
Concordance & Context (12 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 24.6
6th Line★
calamity, disaster, misery, suffering 62.6
迷復，凶，有災眚。用行師，終有大敗，以其國君凶，至于十年不克征。
Lost return
Ominous
There will be calamity and grave errors
If trying to advance the military
In the end there will be a major defeat
Reaching one’s domain and its nobility with misfortune
Even after ten years, no ability to campaign*
Stats: 86+3→ 25.3
3rd Line
misfortune, calamity, adversity, accident (s)
無妄之災，或繫之牛，行人之得，邑人之災。
One without pretense still has misfortunes
Sometimes tying one’s ox
Means the drifter’s gain
And the townsfolk’s disaster
→ 25.3
(a, the) calamity, misfortune, adversity, crisis
無妄之災，或繫之牛，行人之得，邑人之災。
One without pretense still has misfortunes
Sometimes tying one’s ox
Means the drifter’s gain
And the townsfolk’s disaster
Xiao Xiang 3
calamity, disaster, adversity, misfortune
需於泥，災在外也。自我致寇，敬慎不敗也。
05.3x Waiting in mud:
Misfortune waits beyond
* Of our own accord to invite predators:
Attention (and) mindfulness avoid ruin
→ 23.4x
Xiao Xiang 4
disaster, calamity, crisis, injury, suffering
剝牀以膚，切近災也。
23.4x Stripping the bed for (its) flesh:
Cutting close to disaster
→ 25.6x
Xiao Xiang 6
disaster, crisis, calamity, suffering, injury
無妄之行，窮之災。
25.6x Without pretense’s behavior:
Going too far leads to crisis
→ 26.1x
Za Gua
accident, crises, adversity, divine judgment
災。
Stats: 24.6
Xiao Xiang 1
(a) calamity, crisis, disaster; adversity
有利利以不犯災。
26.1x (This) will get harsh, worthwhile to quit:
(And) not provoke a crisis
→ 33.1x
Xiao Xiang 1
(the) crisis? calamity?, misfortune?, injury?
遁尾之利，不往何災。
33.1x Withdrawing the tail comes to have troubles:
(If) not in motion, where is the crisis?
→ 55.1x
Xiao Xiang 1
(is, may be) harmful, injurious; (means) disaster
雖旬無咎，過旬災也。
55.1x Even for a long week, no error:
To exceed the long week (means) disaster
→ 24.6
1st Line
adversity, disaster, suffering, calamity
旅瑣瑣，斯其所取災。
The wanderer is fussy and annoying
And so this position courts suffering
→ 62.6
6th Line
(of) calamity, disaster, adversity, misfortune 24.6
弗遇過之。飛鳥離之，凶，是謂災眚。
With no acknowledgement in passing others by
The flying birds get distance from this one
Bad omen
Surely a sign of calamity and suffering
→ 05.3x
Homophones (zai)
哉zai1here, indeed, in fact; now, currently, this day; (a, the) admiration, surprise, wonder; (to) begin; (most) certainly, emphatically; indeed, really, surely, truly; will ... ?; at all !; (how/so (very) / such / what) ... !; exclamatory particle災zai162.6 adversity, disaster, suffering, calamity載zai4(to) carry (on), hold up, uphold, sustain, bear, keep, transport, haul, convey, load, contain, deliver, supply, honor, obey, support, enjoy, receive, undertake, pick up, start work, initiate, achieve, fill, fill in; publish, record (s, ed, ing); (a, the) load, undertaking, achievement; cargo, freight, transport(ation), conveyance; at first; (to be) coveyed在zai4(to be) (still) in, within, inside, amidst; at, here; present, current, placed, positioned, situated, stationed, located (in), by, to, on, upon, over, across, above; therein, herein; in this, involved with; (to) exist, consist, lie (in, within), live, dwell, reside, abide in/on/upon, remain, await, belong (to), rest with, depend (on, upon), sit, stay; happen, occur (s, ed, ing) (in); (a, the) presence, existence, place, locus; here is; is that of, are those of; is from; when, now, then再zai4(to ask) two, twice; again; (the) second
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