悔亡

The phrase denotes the cessation of remorse or the removal of a situation that would lead to regret.

• 悔 (huǐ): Remorse, regret, or the error/misalignment causing such feelings.

• 亡 (wáng): Vanishing, perishing, or ceasing to exist.

Subject-Verb construction: [Regret / Cause of regret] → [vanishes].

Contrast with 无咎 (wú jiù, "no blame"). While 无咎 describes a static state of being without fault, 悔亡 implies a transition from a potential or active state of regret to its resolution.

The translator should determine if the "vanishing" refers to the psychological emotion (remorse) or the situational cause (the error). The term is generally optimistic; 亡 indicates the loss of the negative element (悔), not a loss of the ability to repent. In certain corpora, such as the Yi Jing, it may function as technical shorthand for a favorable turn of events that renders previous errors moot.