The lines of hexagram 16

  Line 1. 'Expressing' or 'singing about': the character is a bird with mouth, a singing bird. Same character is used in hex.15.2
  Line 2. 'Situated' is chain-mail.
  Line 4. 'Partners are united like a hair clasp does'. Another translation is: Why not string the cowries?

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