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Divined on Bing, tested: The Many Commanders224 will have no misfortune. 1 221 depicts a right hand holding a type of weapon, and there is a fire element at the top. I take it as a variant form of (HJ 26631), which is written with a right hand holding an element that resembles the graph xin 辛 and triples “fire”. As for the difference in what is in the right hand, a comparison can be drawn with variants of long 龍 “dragon” written both as (HJ 4654) and (HJ 27021). In early script, writing a signifier once and reduplicating it can have the same meaning. Yu Xingwu (2009: 88-89) first identified as the ancestral form of xie 燮, and 燮is synonymous with fa 伐 “to attack”, as in the Shijing, “Da ming”大明(Mao 236): 燮伐 大商 “attack Great Shang”, and Cao Bo fu 曹伯簠 (JC 4631-32): (燮)伐繁陽 “Attack Fan- yang”. Ma Ruichen’s (1777-1853) Tongshi 通釋 commentary to the Shijing line says that 燮 should be read as a phonetic loan for xi 襲 “attack.” (左) is a pictograph of the left hand. I read it here in its derived sense, “contrary”; duo zuo 多左 is a noun phrase, “much opposition”; for 左as “contrary”, see 361.1 and GuLin bubian 249-253. Zhouyuan OBI use the coda 囟(思)正亡左 “Would that it be correct and without oppo- sition” (H11:82). (肩) is a pictograph of a cattle scapula; “shoulder” is the word’s primary meaning. In Old Chinese it is used as a rebus to write a word that means “can” or “be able” (Shuowen jiezi: 克, 肩也). Oracle bone inscriptions use the verb phrase jian xing 肩同(興)/ke xing 克興, as in 婦好 肩同(興)有疾 “Lady Hao will be able to recover from this illness” (HJ 709r) and 亞克興有疾 “Ya-officials can recover from this illness” (HJ 13754); see Qiu Xigui 2012.1: 473-484. Here “肩 若” is comparable to “肩興/克興”. As it does elsewhere in the corpus, ruo 若 means shan 善 “good” or jili 吉利 “favorable”. 224 Duo Yin 多尹 are administrators. Dong Zuobin (1936:122) explains 尹 as being equivalent in meaning to jun 君 “leader, ruler”; see too Li Xueqin 1983. The group of people referred to as the Many Commanders occur several times in the HYZ OBI: once they were summoned by the protagonist to contribute jades to the king (196); and another time, they were summoned to 162 | HYZ 113