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Divined on Jihai: On Jia, if making an invitation, His Highness will go. 1 is composed of zou 走 (semantic) + zha 乍 (phono-semantic). It has the opposite mean- ing of 安 “calm”. The root meaning of zha 乍 is to “rise, sprout up” (Shuowen jiezi: 起也), and when the verb 作takes an animal as its object it means “to stir up” or “excite” (興)’:《周禮‧大 506 Shima Kunio (2006: 711-713, 716, 735) locates Qin in southern Shandong. HYZ 372 | 321