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噬嗑

№ 21 · waiting and timing

Biting Through

Hexagram Biting Through shows where the situation asks not for fear-based guessing, but for the exact rhythm of change.

decisive cuttransitionmeasure

Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

噬嗑：亨。利用狱。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

Biting Through: free passage. It is beneficial to use legal judgments.

狱 refers to legal/judicial matters in the historical setting; this is not modern legal advice.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-21-guaci · sha256:1793cc2c015f358696a841931302913b61b849ca0674ff726e93b5cc63164064

translation corpus: ICHING_ZHOUYI_EDITORIAL_TRANSLATION_CORPUS_V1_20260827 · final review: OMENHALL_FINAL_EDITORIAL_REVIEW_V1_20260828 · method: AI_ASSISTED_DIRECT_FROM_ADJUDICATED_CHINESE_20260827

Line 1 · 爻辭

初九：屦校灭趾，无咎。

Initial Nine: wearing a wooden shoe restraint that covers the toes. No blame.

屦校 is a punishment-restraint image; translation is descriptive, not prescriptive.

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Line 2 · 爻辭

六二：噬肤灭鼻，无咎。

Six in the Second: biting flesh, covering the nose. No blame.

灭鼻 is vivid and ambiguous in physical staging; the draft stays literal.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

六三：噬腊肉，遇毒；小吝，无咎。

Six in the Third: biting dried meat and encountering poison. A little regret; no blame.

毒 is preserved as source wording. It must not be rendered or interpreted as a medical diagnosis, toxicology claim, or health instruction.

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Line 4 · 爻辭

九四：噬干胏，得金矢，利艰贞，吉。

Nine in the Fourth: biting dried gristly meat; obtaining a metal arrow. Beneficial is difficult constancy. Auspicious.

干胏 is a difficult food term; “dried gristly meat” is an editorial approximation.

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Line 5 · 爻辭

六五：噬干肉，得黄金，贞厉，无咎。

Six in the Fifth: biting dried meat; obtaining yellow metal. Constancy amid danger. No blame.

黄金 is kept as “yellow metal” rather than silently assumed to mean modern gold currency.

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zhouyi-21-line-5 · sha256:d3f5e7ec256636f66383c6c81f21f9277cccb4ed2c882f0765fa0f5f6f4066cf

Line 6 · 爻辭

上九：何校灭耳，凶。

Top Nine: carrying a wooden cangue that covers the ears. Misfortune.

何 is read as bearing/carrying in the punishment context.

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zhouyi-21-line-6 · sha256:103ff89ae333e9057df9c51e2f7dede7ee9f6bb8fc81e146bdc73b6a373a049a

Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳上 · Tuan Commentary I象傳上 · Image Commentary I

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

The theme sits in the field of decisive cut: it is important to see what has ripened and what still needs form.

Advice

Take one clear step, name the boundary, and do not turn the sign into a guarantee of outcome.

Caution

I Ching does not replace legal, medical, financial, or psychological help.

How to read lines

  • • First read Biting Through as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a Biting Through day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, Biting Through asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • Where is the movement here, and where is resistance?
  • • Which small step fits the timing?
  • • What must be accepted as fact?

Small practice

  • • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • • Where does the theme of “Biting Through” appear in my situation?
  • • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.

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