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Divined on Yihai: Will be happy. 1 33 Reading 戠as a phonetic loan for dai 待follows Qiu Xigui 2012: 1.160-166. This word com- monly occurs as the first word in the second divination of a paired statement and in the one phrased in the negative mode (26.3-4 and 157.1-2). 34 Lin Yun (2007) and Zhao Peng (2007: 295) both think Pei 配is a person’s name, and this is certainly possible. I propose to read it as a loan for fei 妃 “wife”; Gao Heng’s (2010: 338) Yijing commentary to the initial line statement of hexagram Feng 豊 “Abundant”: “yu qi peizhu 遇其 配主”, says, 配讀為妃，妃猶妻 “Pei 配should be read as fei 妃; fei 妃is just like qi 妻 ‘wife’”. 配occurs in Shang OBI meaning “wife”, for instance Yingcang 1864: 庚寅卜，王：余燎于其配 “Crack making on the gengyin day [27], His Majesty [tested]: I will make a burnt offering to his consort.” (Translated by Takashima 2010: II.53.) The compound noun “zi Pei” is comparable to Ge pei 戓配(妃) “Ge’s spouse” on 41.1. See too 139.1 commentary. : I follow Wei Cide (2006: 130-131) who reads this graph as a ligature composed of zhou 帚 “broom” (=fu 婦 “Lady”) over wang 王 “His Majesty”. This type of ligature writing in reference to a wife of Wu Ding occurs elsewhere in the OBI; see HJ 32764 [Li I diviner type], which writes the name Lady Jing 婦井as a ligature. 36 Huayuanzhuang East scribes use the graph (yan 衍) to write the word kan 侃 “happy”. At an early stage in the development of the Chinese writing system the graph , which depicted the image of a channel (hang 行) full of water, was used to write both the words yong 永 “full of water; eternal” and yan 衍 “full of water; extensive”; see Qiu Xigui [1993] 2012: 1.378-386. Reading this graph as 侃 throughout these inscriptions is confirmed by its appearance oppo- site the words chou 由(怞/妯) ”sad, unhappy” and yu (虞) “upset” on HYZ 9.3-4. 86 | HYZ 5