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Divined on Ji: It should be His Highness who [does] (it); lord Xing will seek (or: go to) His Highness. 1 modal adverb qi 其, and this supports it be read as a verb here. I read it as a variant of jue 爵; see 449.4. : In early script the determinative “tree” can be written with one tree or reduplicated with multiple ones. The graph in the middle is shen 申, and it is likely the sound element. The Shuowen lists shen 柛and defines it as “deadwood” 木自斃. 151 Peng Bangjiong (1981) locates Bing 竝near modern day Jinzhong, Shanxi 山西晉中. HYZ 53 | 129