屯
zhun1Mathews: 6592GSR: 427a
Dictionary Definition
(to) rally, muster, collect (together), store up, bank (up), assemble, accumulate, pull together, bring together, summon (help), congregate, secure; need help, need assistance, struggle, sprout, start (out) small (s, ed, ing); (to be) in difficulty, in need of (help, assistance), sparing, hard, difficult; (a, the) village, congregation, camp, rally, initial difficulty, difficult start, birth pains, early trials, rites of passage; a single blade of grass, bending and twisting; (to consolidate gains while cutting losses); to garrison or station soldiers; ap tun2, especially as to station (soldiers) or store up
Radical: 45+1 | First occurrence: Hexagram 03.0
Concordance & Context (6 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 03.0
Gua Ci★
rallying, needing assistance, early trials
屯：元，亨，利，贞。勿用有攸往，利建侯。
Supreme fulfillment
Worthwhile to be persistent
Not at all useful to have somewhere to go
Worthwhile to enlist delegates
Stats: 45+1→ 03.2
2nd Line
^summoning help; needing assistance, help
屯如邅如，乘馬班如。匪寇，婚媾。女子贞不字，十年乃字。
It seems like needing assistance is the same as turning back
A team of four horses arrayed alike
Not an adversary but a marital suitor*
The woman, of tender years, is resolved: no babies
Ten years, then babies
→ 03.5
5th Line
pulling together, collecting, banking, storing
屯其膏，小贞吉，大贞凶。
Collecting one’s riches
A little persistence is promising
A lot of persistence has pitfalls
→ 03.0
Xiao Xiang 5
collecting
屯其膏，施未光也。
03.5x Collecting one’s riches:
The ramifications (are) not yet revealed
Tuan Zhuan
(in, with) rallying
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
Xiang Zhuan
ra llying
雲雷屯，君子以經綸。
Clouds and thunder
Rallying
The noble young one, accordingly, sorts warp from weft
→ 03.0
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