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...Ding...1 308 In oracle bone script the word fu 腹 “stomach” was written pictographically with the addition of a deictic symbol “pointing” to the stomach, or like here, as a phonograph phoneti- cized with bi 畐 “a type of container for liquids”. See 416.10 and commentary for an instance where the graph bi 畐was used a phonetic loan to write the word fu 复 “return”. 畐, 腹 and 复 were all yu 魚-group rhymes (-a). HYZ 191 | 207