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Divined on Xinchou: By tomorrow pursue wolves. 12 composed of “arrow” shi 矢 inside a case, and writes the word han 函 “tongue; (arrow) case”. (函is a cognate of han 含 “what is inside the mouth” > “to contain”.) 函in its primary sense of “arrow case” occurs on the Xiaochen Qiang 小臣墻 bone document (HJ 36481rv). Here, as the object of ru “to contribute” and in the context of killing cows, it should be read “tongue” (Yao Xuan 2016: 106-110); Shuowen jiezi: 函, 舌也。象形…肣，俗函从肉、今 “Han means the tongue. It is a pictograph…the graph han 肣 is a common form of han 函; it is spelled with 肉 (meat/flesh classifier) and 今.” HYZ 111 | 159