爻辞

爻辭
yáocí

a line statement in the I Ching, as opposed to a hexagram statement, which is 卦辭／卦辞 (guàcí).

Wiktionary

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1 爻 yáo the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦 bāguà, e.g. ☶
=2 辞 cí old variant of 辞 cí
=2 辞 cí
  1. to resign
  2. to dismiss
  3. to decline
  4. (literary) to take leave
  5. (archaic poetic genre) ballad
  6. variant of 词 cí