这个字是本章最难的一个，三种说法都摆出来才算公道。第一，《甲骨文編》把这个字形收在“邍”下，也就是“高而平的野地”，后世写作“原”的那个词；这是通行的读法。第二，《说文》讲小篆时说“邍，高平之野。人所登，从辵、备、彔，闕”——字义它给了，可是讲到字形，它在该说明的地方写下一个“闕”字，等于承认说不上来；能追溯到的最早的字书已经先放弃了。第三，骨片上这个字根本没有“辵”那个走路的偏旁，“辵”要到金文、小篆才加上去；也就是说，把骨片上的字认成后来的“邍”，靠的是铜器上的形和读音，不是靠这幅画。上下两件各代表什么，至今没有一个大家都接受的答案。
這個字是本章最難的一個，三種說法都擺出來才算公道。第一，《甲骨文編》把這個字形收在「邍」下，也就是「高而平的野地」，後世寫作「原」的那個詞；這是通行的讀法。第二，《說文》講小篆時說「邍，高平之野。人所登，从辵、備、彔，闕」——字義它給了，可是講到字形，它在該說明的地方寫下一個「闕」字，等於承認說不上來；能追溯到的最早的字書已經先放棄了。第三，骨片上這個字根本沒有「辵」那個走路的偏旁，「辵」要到金文、小篆才加上去；也就是說，把骨片上的字認成後來的「邍」，靠的是銅器上的形和讀音，不是靠這幅畫。上下兩件各代表甚麼，至今沒有一個大家都接受的答案。
This is the hardest character in the chapter, and it takes three statements to be fair to it. First, 甲骨文編 files this shape under 邍, high level open country — the word later written 原 — and that is the received reading. Second, 說文, describing the seal form, says “邍 is high level wild ground, ground people climb; from 辵, 备 and 彔, 闕” — it gives the sense, but where the construction should be explained it writes 闕, “left blank”, admitting it cannot say; the earliest dictionary we can reach had already given up. Third, the bone form carries no 辵, the walking element, at all; that is added only in the bronze and seal forms. Identifying the bone graph with the later 邍 therefore rests on the bronze shapes and on the sound, not on this picture. What the upper piece and the lower piece each stand for has no answer that everyone accepts.
