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Divined on Dingmao: If our lord enters the school,559 (it) will be favorable (and) bring happiness. Used. 123 553 See the commentary to 247 for the meaning of this word. 554 The inscription reads 龜, but I take it to be a detached spelling of the same word occur- ing outside of the HYZ OBI and written from top-to-bottom as (HJ 8996). A comparison be- tween the two strongly implies that is the sound element. Detached spellings of xingsheng 形 聲phonographs are a characteristic of the HYZ script. “Cow” 牝is one of the more obvious examples. ought to be equivalent to 唯有辭 (286.11). This means is another way of writing ci 556 This graph depicts a wall + kneeling man. The Shuowen jiezi lists a graph that resembles the “wall”, and says to read it yin 隱 “hide”: 𠃊, 匿也。象𨒅曲隱蔽形。凡𠃊之屬皆从𠃊。 讀若隱。The combined meaning of the HYZ form ought to be an early spelling of 隱; the 𠃊- shaped component also appears to function phonetically. 557 is an elaborated form of the linearized ; for the reading of Liu, see the commentary to HYZ 91. 558 The information after the judgment “Used” is a verification. The entire inscription is writ- ten around a single divination crack and undoubtedly is to be read as a unified divination account (Sun Yabing 2011a: 201). 559 As the object of the verb ru 入, xue 學perhaps is better read as a noun, “school”, although its verbal function—“instruct, practice”, cannot be ruled out. As a noun, Song Zhenhao (2010: 464) defines it as “practice or training grounds” 學習場所. Examples of 學as “school” occur HYZ 451 | 361