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34's ideogram is made out of the elements of wood (solidity), warrior (which I identify with the goat mentioned in the lines, or else, drive) and big man (guiding principle)
The second, zhuàng (old way of writing it: 4), is composed of 'left half of a tree' (bàn, 2), a plank, bed, stiff, strong. . . . If the left tree-half is written reversed then it is the right tree-half piàn, and it means a slice of wood.
The ideogram used to illustrate Guai.43 is seldom used outside the context of the Yi Jing. It originally represented a Hand Holding a Wooden Lath upon which were carved small grooves. These grooves were witnesses to a contract agreement between two parties
but it did make a lot of sense and it freed that poor goat from Wilhelm's badmouthing
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