本文對仲父盤上一個舊認為是從辶、舟、禾的字提出新的釋讀意見,通過字形分析,認為此字應分析為從辶、■,其中的"■"為聲符,在銘文中可讀為"菽"。相關銘文可組成"菽麥"這樣一個詞語,可與文獻用語相互印證。"菽"為五谷之一,此字的釋讀在農業史研究方面也是一種進步。

The author offers a new interpretation for an important character in inscriptions of the Zhongzhafu pan basin. Through palaeographic analysis, the author suggests the character that used to be considered composing of 辶, 舟, and 禾 should be transcribed differently. This character should only consists of 辶 and ■, in which the part ■ is the phonetic component. For this reason, this character should be read as shu(菽), and the related character should compose the compound shumai(菽麥)together, which can be identifi ed in other transmitted texts. As one of the fi ve major crops, the identifi cation of shu(菽) shed new light on the history of agriculture.