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Divined on Wuzi: Prime cattle on the altar. 1 divination it can be deduced that its meaning is opposite jie 皆 “all”. Its semantic range has to mean “a portion of” or only”/“just”, as opposed to both or all (viand trays and the altar). See 354 The coda 子弗艱 is the anticipated outcome of going ahead with offering prime cattle on viand trays and not on the altar. 355 You 又(有) is likely a noun prefix (translated as the definite article or a demonstrative pronoun). Reading as qu 曲 is uncertain. Perhaps it is related to the person called Bu zi Qu 不 232 | HYZ 229