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Our lord tested. 1 Pre-Han literature to write the word 孚 “trust”. 孚occurs as a judgment term in the Book of Changes, and commentators routinely gloss it xin 信 “trust”. (孚 is written with the loan fu 復 “return” in the Mawangdui Yijing.) The Warring States manuscript called Divination Story*卜書 (ShangBo 7) uses biao 表as a phonetic loan for fu 孚, and fu 孚is written with the phonetic loan biao (the sound element is 麃) in the Warring States manuscript Great King Jian Stops the Drought 柬大王泊旱 (ShangBo 4). See 267.2 and commentary. 64 : This graph is a compound formed with 子 “child” and 矢 “arrow”. A variant in Shang script wrote it with “adult man” 大and not with “child” . Yu Xingwu (cited in 2009: 319-321) says that this word is synonymous with but different from ji 疾 “sickness; make ill”. Paul Serruys (1974: 91, n. 5) says, “this is a case [concerning these two graphic forms] of originally two different graphs for two different usages, merging into one graph for both (probably related) words: ‘to have sickness, be sick,’ and ‘to inflict pain’”. Elsewhere (16.1) Ji Nai is just called Nai 乃; see too