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On Jiawu, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Jia one sow (and) add (> have) a cereal offering. 123 392 ZSKY 2003 and Yao Xuan both read this graph as zou 奏, but recently Sun Yabing (2011a: 56, note 3/2014: 199, note 5) emends it wei 未. The language of this prognostication can com- pared with 220.1: “未。其有至艱。其戊”. “Used” is a judgment on the divination crack, and was likely made by the same diviner who made the divination. A formal prediction made by the head of the family disagreed with the judgment and overruled it. An example like this negates the argument (Huang Tianshu [1991] 2007) that the technical term 用was a type of verification, and that it meant the divination statement was “applied” and actually carried out; see the commentary to HYZ 6.1 for a fuller discussion. HYZ 263 | 259