本文探討的主題是甲骨文中一個與四方風名有關的未釋字。關於甲骨文中記載四方風名的問題起初並未被學者所注意，胡厚宣於1941年於《責善》半月刊發表〈甲骨文四方風名考〉，此文提出重要觀點，震驚學界。後來學者亦陸續有所發揮，累積的成果使此課題得到很好的解決，四方與四方風名八個字中的七字已被正確釋讀。而卜辭中有□字，或作□，金文作□，作為四方風中的北方風名，歷來學者多有論述。本人認為，前賢對北方風名讀為冽，指寒風而言，是正確的，然對其字形演變、詮釋上仍有未令人滿意之處，此字構形特殊，象持殳棒於頭部擊殺人。《說文》有「盭」、「戾」二字，徐鉉在「盭」下說「擊辠人見血也。」段注說「今則戾行而盭廢矣。」而北方風名保留在《山海經》作「剡」，從戰國文字从炎的「（匚炎戈）」、「L炎刂」、「（匚炎刂）」諸字考察，其異文及假借字向來與厲、冽等字有關。所以甲骨文北方風名的□字，至西周金文寫作「（ㄠ幸攵）」，被借去為「定」、「致」等意義，後被「戾」字所取代，而與北方風名相關的詞義則為假借字「厲」所取代。

This paper explores the unexplained character related to the names of the four winds in oracle bone script. Scholars didn't pay attention to the issues about the names of four winds until Hu Hou-Xuan published "A study of the names of the four winds in oracle bone script" in the fortnightly journal Zeshan in 1941. This work presented some important views and amazed sinological circles. Later, scholars worked hard at this subject and even correctly explained seven characters out of eight which mean the four cardinal directions and four winds in oracle bone script. The eighth one, written A, A', or A" in bronze script, has been explicated by numerous scholars as being the name of the north wind.The undersigned believes that the pronunciation of the name of the north wind which previous scholars defined as liè (冽) (indicating cold wind) is correct. However, the studies of the character are incomplete in evolution and semantic analysis. For example, the peculiar composition of the character wasn't mentioned-it looks like a man wielding a club to strike somebody to death on his head. In Shuowen, the two characters lì (盭) and lì (戾) are once used as the name of the north wind. Xu Xuan explains lì (盭) as "strike a criminal until blood appears", and Duan Yucai explains that "Today lì (戾) is the current form instead of the obsolete character lì (盭)." The name of the north wind is still preserved in Shan Hai jing as yǎn (剡), which an examination of characters B, C, and D from the Warring States period, all constructed on yán (炎), shows that their variants and phonetic loans are always related to characters lì (厲) and liè (冽). Therefore, A, the name of the north wind in oracle bone script, which appears as E in western Zhou bronze script, means dìng (定)or zhì (致) before it was replaced by the character lì (戾). Furthermore, word senses related to the name of the north wind have been replaced by its phonetic loan character lì (厲).