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Divined on Jisi: Rain will likely continue. Our lord read the crack and said, “It should continue to end the day.” Used. 1 plied; for instance, the phrase Zi shou ji 子首疾 “Our lord’s head illness” on 446.5, is written 子疾 首 “Our lord’s sickened head” on 304, but is abbreviated 子首 “Our lord’s head” and without the word “sick 疾” on 446.6. For an alternative explanation that it means misfortune caused by speaking inaccurately or saying something that one should not have said, see Li Xueqin 2009: 1-4. 209 Qiu 求 is a pictograph of an earthworm and the ancestral form of qiu 蛷 (Qiu Xigui 2012: