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Invite His Highness. 2 and are almost certainly variants writing the same name; for the latter, see 39.17. occurs again on HYZ 130 as a contributor of zithers (/zither players) for a musical performance hosted by the prince and attended by Ding. : The graph’s form reduplicates chen 臣 (禪initial 真-rime) and adds a grass classifier protruding out from the top. Perhaps it is a variant of (416). As a verb, Yu Xingwu (2009: 27- 28) reads as zeng 贈 “send, gift”. The negative fu 弗 in front of it means it is functioning as a verb and is the result of “capture”. It also indicates that the issue being divined about is out of the prince’s control. HYZ 113 | 161