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 	Compare: 标/標(􀾗𣠙) biāo ‘treetop; branch tip; handle of the Big Dipper’.
 	Compare: 飘/飄(􂗶𩙞) piāo ‘whirlwind’; 漂(􁹩𤄚) piāo ‘float/drift’.
-	“Ignis fatuus (vulgo 鬼火 phantom-fire). The Chinese fear them. On the top, 覀 the bust of the hobgoblin. At the bottom, 火 the flame that takes the place of the body's lower part. In the middle, 一 the waist. The modern meanings of this character, ‘a warrant, a bill’, are 转注 zhuǎnzhù (things that are feared)” —Wieger.
+	“[票/𤐫] Ignis fatuus (vulgo 鬼火 phantom-fire). The Chinese fear them. On the top, 覀 the bust of the hobgoblin. At the bottom, 火 the flame that takes the place of the body's lower part. In the middle, 一 the waist. The modern meanings of this character, ‘a warrant, a bill’, are 转注 zhuǎnzhù (things that are feared)” —Wieger.
 	Note: Wieger (or his sources) may be associating the top component 囟 of 票(𤐫) with 甶 the head of 鬼 ‘demon’; cf. 粦.
 	Compare: 䙴(􀝰𠨧) qiān ‘climb/vanish’ (as in 遷/迁 ‘move/change’); 农/農(􀝹䢉𨑇) nóng ‘farming’; 要(􀝶𦥺) yào ‘want’.