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On Yi…1 132 Zhang Bingquan (1957: 2.1.348) explains you 友as a pair 雙; it functions here as a verb, “to pair”; see 267.4-6, 10: “友 一”.Shen Pei (2006a) reads it as a phonetic loan for hui/hai 醢 “meat sauce” > caus. “to make something into a meat sauce” (Shuowen jiezi: 肉醬). Fang Zhi- song (2007: 18-37), based on receipt notations, determines that one meaning of 友as a verb is to “submit, hand over”. On HYZ 316 the phrase you ruo 友若is another way of writing you ruo 又(有)若: 壬子卜其殺剪友若用 “Divined on Renzi: If killing and cutting apart (sacrifice), there will be favor.” See 179.2 and 338.1-3. 120 | HYZ 39