# 第 33 卦 · Dùn (遯) · Strategic Retreat

> **第 33 号卦牌（Pause）**：退一步，保存你的力量。 / Step back to protect your strength.

遯卦象征退避。当形势不利、对抗只会消耗自己时，适时后退是明智的选择。退不是认输，而是保存实力、保持尊严，等待更好的时机。

_站方编辑摘要_

## 卦辞

遯：亨。小利貞。

Thun indicates successful progress (in its circumstances). To a small extent it will (still) be advantageous to be firm and correct.

## 第 1 爻

初六：遯尾，厲，勿用有攸往。

The first line, divided, shows a retiring tail. The position is perilous. No movement in any direction should be made.

## 第 2 爻

六二：執之用黃牛之革，莫之勝說。

The second line, divided, shows its subject holding (his purpose) fast as if by a (thong made from the) hide of a yellow ox, which cannot be broken.

## 第 3 爻

九三：係遯，有疾厲，畜臣妾吉。

The third line, undivided, shows one retiring but bound,—to his distress and peril. (If he were to deal with his binders as in) nourishing a servant or concubine, it would be fortunate for him.

## 第 4 爻

九四：好遯君子吉，小人否。

The fourth line, undivided, shows its subject retiring notwithstanding his likings. In a superior man this will lead to good fortune; a small man cannot attain to this.

## 第 5 爻

九五：嘉遯，貞吉。

The fifth line, undivided, shows its subject retiring in an admirable way. With firm correctness there will be good fortune.

## 第 6 爻

上九：肥遯，无不利。

The sixth line, undivided, shows its subject retiring in a noble way. It will be advantageous in every respect.

## 出处

- [周易 · 中文原文（Ruism Digital Library）](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/33#33.1)
- [James Legge, The Yî King (1882), Sacred Books of the East, XVI](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/33#33.1)