I Ching — Text sources

Reading text: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 16,
Oxford, the Clarendon Press, 1882.

Scanned at sacred-texts.com, March, 2003. J. B. Hare, redactor. This text is
in the public domain. These files may be used for any non-commercial
purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.

Source: https://archive.sacred-texts.com/ich/ictp.htm
Hexagram pages: https://archive.sacred-texts.com/ich/ic01.htm through ic64.htm
Retrieved September 10, 2026.

Hexagrams 32, 35, 36, 46, 49, 60, and 63 were transcribed from the
public-domain 1882 edition scan at https://www.biroco.com/yijing/Legge1882.pdf
(printed pages 125–126, 131–133, 134–135, 159–160, 167–168, 197–198,
204–206). Archaic type for names is represented in Unicode consistently
with the archive transcription; line-wrapped words are joined.

Only Legge's judgment and line passages are included. Page numbers,
navigation, digitizer images, and footnote reference markers are omitted.
The historical language is preserved. Missing or misread line numbers and
spacing introduced around italic letters are corrected during extraction.
Hexagram 21, line 6: the archive's "cars" is corrected to "ears", checked
against printed page 102 of the 1882 scan.