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harmony partners in that system are Snake and Rooster; Horse&#8217;s are Tiger and Dog. Neither sign appears on the other&#8217;s list there, and they aren&#8217;t a Six Conflicts clash either.<\/p>\n      <p>That is not the full traditional picture, though. The wider Earthly Branch relationship system used in Chinese fate calculation includes a fourth named category these three pages don&#8217;t cover \u2014 Six Harms (\u516d\u5bb3) \u2014 and Ox and Horse are one of its six pairs: \u4e11\u5348\u76f8\u5bb3 (ch\u01d2u w\u01d4 xi\u0101ng h\u00e0i), &#8220;Ox and Horse harm each other.&#8221; Separately, one of the oldest texts in the Chinese canon also names ox and horse together for a specific, practical reason that has nothing to do with either of these compatibility systems. Both threads are below.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"quick-answer\">\n      <h2>Where Horse and Ox sit in the three groupings used on this site&#8217;s compatibility pages<\/h2>\n      <p>In traditional Chinese calendrical systems, each zodiac animal also corresponds to one of twelve Earthly Branches \u2014 a set of twelve symbolic signs used in the traditional calendar and in BaZi, a Chinese birth-chart system built from a person&#8217;s year, month, day, and hour of birth. Here, words such as &#8220;harmony,&#8221; &#8220;harm,&#8221; and &#8220;clash&#8221; are technical names for branch relationships, not literal predictions that a couple will be harmonious, harm each other, or destined to clash. This site&#8217;s compatibility pages document three fixed rules built on these branches: Three Harmonies (trine groups of three), Six Harmonies (one-to-one &#8220;secret friend&#8221; pairs), and Six Conflicts (opposite-sign clashes). Checked against all three, Horse and Ox fall outside every one.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n        <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n          <thead>\n            <tr>\n              <th>Category used on this site<\/th>\n              <th>Names Horse + Ox?<\/th>\n              <th>What it actually groups<\/th>\n            <\/tr>\n          <\/thead>\n          <tbody>\n            <tr><td>Three Harmonies (\u4e09\u5408, trine)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Ox&#8217;s trio is Snake\u2013Rooster\u2013Ox; Horse&#8217;s is Tiger\u2013Horse\u2013Dog<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Harmonies (\u516d\u5408, secret friend)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Ox&#8217;s one-to-one partner is Rat; Horse&#8217;s is Goat<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Conflicts (\u516d\u51b2, opposite signs)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Ox&#8217;s clash is Goat; Horse&#8217;s is Rat<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Result<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">Horse and Ox fall outside all three compatibility groupings used on this site&#8217;s pages \u2014 neither a named harmony pair nor a Six Conflicts clash<\/td><\/tr>\n          <\/tbody>\n        <\/table>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"tzl-note\">\n        <strong>That&#8217;s the scope of this site&#8217;s three compatibility pages \u2014 it isn&#8217;t the whole traditional branch system.<\/strong> A fourth classical category, Six Harms, does name Ox and Horse together. What that category says, and why it&#8217;s kept separate from the three above, is covered next.\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"ox-in-this-pairing\">\n      <h2>Ox&#8217;s side: structure built one slow step at a time<\/h2>\n      <p>Ox holds the second spot in the twelve-year cycle, and its own profile page centers on one idea: steady structure. Reliability, patience, duty, and the ability to build something slowly are what the profile lists as what Ox brings to a relationship. Its Three Harmonies partners are Snake and Rooster; its Six Harmonies partner is Rat; Goat is the sign it clashes against in Six Conflicts. What Ox is described as needing is &#8220;respect for rhythm&#8221;: it tends to open up through repeated trust rather than sudden intensity.<\/p>\n      <p>Horse doesn&#8217;t appear on any of those three lists. As the next two sections cover, that&#8217;s specific to those three groupings \u2014 it isn&#8217;t the last word from the wider branch system.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"horse-in-this-pairing\">\n      <h2>Horse&#8217;s side: momentum that resists being boxed in<\/h2>\n      <p>Five positions further around the cycle, at number seven, sits Horse \u2014 and its profile page leans on a different idea: movement and vitality. Energy, confidence, and the desire to keep life open run through its Three Harmonies partners too, Tiger and Dog, and its Six Harmonies partner, Goat; Rat is the sign it clashes against in Six Conflicts. What the profile calls Horse&#8217;s own need is &#8220;space with trust&#8221; \u2014 room to keep moving without that reading as distance.<\/p>\n      <p>Ox is absent from Horse&#8217;s three lists in the same way, for the same reason.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"no-classical-label\">\n      <h2>Why these three rules skip this exact pair<\/h2>\n      <p>Each of the three categories on this site&#8217;s compatibility pages is built on a fixed spacing rule around the twelve-branch cycle, not a case-by-case call. Three Harmonies groups three signs positioned exactly four slots apart (Snake, Rooster, and Ox land on 6, 10, and 2). Six Conflicts pairs two signs sitting exactly six slots apart, directly opposite each other on the circle (Ox and Goat sit at 2 and 8). Six Harmonies works differently again: six fixed one-to-one pairings, assigned by name rather than by counting slots \u2014 the full list is on the <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-six-harmonies\/\">Six Harmonies<\/a> page.<\/p>\n      <p>Count the distance between Ox (position 2) and Horse (position 7) and it lands on five slots \u2014 too wide for a Three Harmonies trine, one short of a Six Conflicts clash, and not a match for any of the six named Six Harmonies pairs either. <a href=\"\/dragon-horse-compatibility\/\">Dragon and Horse<\/a> and <a href=\"\/horse-monkey-compatibility\/\">Horse and Monkey<\/a> both fall outside these three groupings too, but through a two-slot gap rather than this five-slot one \u2014 different arithmetic, same result within these three rules specifically. That result is about the scope of these three groupings, though, not about the wider branch system covered next.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"six-harms\">\n      <h2>The label these three rules miss: Six Harms (\u516d\u5bb3), \u4e11\u5348\u76f8\u5bb3<\/h2>\n      <p>Three Harmonies, Six Harmonies, and Six Conflicts aren&#8217;t the whole traditional Earthly Branch system \u2014 they&#8217;re the three this site&#8217;s compatibility pages use. The wider system used in Chinese fate calculation (\u547d\u7406) also includes Six Harms (\u516d\u5bb3), Mutual Punishments (\u76f8\u5211), and Mutual Breaks (\u76f8\u7834). Six Harms names six specific branch pairs, and Ox and Horse are one of them: <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u4e11\u5348\u76f8\u5bb3<\/span> <em>ch\u01d2u w\u01d4 xi\u0101ng h\u00e0i<\/em>, &#8220;Ox and Horse harm each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n      <p>A clear classical source for the full Six Harms list is the <a href=\"https:\/\/gj.zdic.net\/zibu\/366\/10031.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ming-dynasty <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> (<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u4e09\u547d\u901a\u4f1a<\/span>)<\/a>, compiled by Wan Min-ying. It names all six pairs: Rat\u2013Goat (\u5b50\u672a), Ox\u2013Horse (\u4e11\u5348), Tiger\u2013Snake (\u5bc5\u5df3), Rabbit\u2013Dragon (\u536f\u8fb0), Monkey\u2013Pig (\u7533\u4ea5), and Rooster\u2013Dog (\u9149\u620c). For \u4e11\u5348 specifically, the text describes \u5348&#8217;s &#8220;vigorous fire&#8221; (\u65fa\u706b) as overwhelming \u4e11&#8217;s &#8220;weakened metal&#8221; (\u6b7b\u91d1) \u2014 each branch is assigned its own element and its own strength at that point in the yearly cycle, and here Horse&#8217;s fire is read as strong while Ox&#8217;s metal is read as weak, so the stronger element is said to dominate the weaker one. The text calls this specific case <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u5b98\u9b3c\u76f8\u5bb3<\/span> \u2014 literally &#8220;official-ghost mutual harm,&#8221; a label from a separate BaZi framework (the Ten Gods system) that isn&#8217;t unpacked further here. This is presented as what that classical text says, not as a verified mechanism.<\/p>\n      <p>This site&#8217;s own compatibility pages for Horse and Ox don&#8217;t currently build out a Six Harms framework alongside their Three Harmonies \/ Six Harmonies \/ Six Conflicts tables, so Ox\u2013Horse falling outside those three categories has sometimes been described, including in an earlier version of this page, as if no traditional system named the pair at all. That was an overstatement. The accurate statement is narrower: within the three groupings this site&#8217;s compatibility pages use, Horse and Ox aren&#8217;t paired \u2014 but the wider branch system does name them, through Six Harms.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"fu-niu-cheng-ma\">\n      <h2>A separate tradition entirely: \u670d\u725b\u4e58\u9a6c<\/h2>\n      <p>Distinct from both the three-rule scope above and Six Harms, Ox and Horse also share a genuine, textually documented link in a much older text \u2014 and this one is about labor, not compatibility of any kind.<\/p>\n      <p><span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u670d\u725b\u4e58\u9a6c<\/span> <em>f\u00fa ni\u00fa ch\u00e9ng m\u01ce<\/em> \u2014 &#8220;harnessing the ox and riding the horse&#8221; \u2014 is a four-character line from the <em>Yijing<\/em> (<em>I Ching<\/em>, the Book of Changes), one of the oldest texts in the Chinese classical canon. The full passage, from its <a href=\"https:\/\/ctext.org\/book-of-changes\/xi-ci-xia\/zh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Xici&#8221; (\u7cfb\u8f9e) commentary<\/a>, reads: <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u670d\u725b\u4e58\u9a6c\uff0c\u5f15\u91cd\u81f4\u8fdc\uff0c\u4ee5\u5229\u5929\u4e0b\uff0c\u76d6\u53d6\u8bf8\u968f<\/span> \u2014 &#8220;harnessing the ox and riding the horse, to pull heavy loads and travel far, for the benefit of the world \u2014 this was modeled on [the hexagram] Sui.&#8221; The text attributes the practice to the era of the Yellow Emperor, Yao, and Shun \u2014 legendary sage-rulers whose historical dates aren&#8217;t independently fixed \u2014 so this is best read as how the classical text frames a technological turning point, not a dated historical record.<\/p>\n      <p>The <em>Xici<\/em> pairs &#8220;harnessing oxen and riding horses&#8221; with <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u5f15\u91cd\u81f4\u8fdc<\/span> \u2014 carrying heavy loads and reaching distant places. Later commentators often summarize the contrast as <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u725b\u4ee5\u5f15\u91cd\uff0c\u9a6c\u4ee5\u81f4\u8fdc<\/span>, &#8220;oxen for weight, horses for distance,&#8221; while also recognizing that the functions weren&#8217;t absolutely exclusive \u2014 other commentary notes an ox can cover distance and a horse can carry weight too; the phrase draws a general contrast, not a rigid division. Some scholarship on the four-character phrase notes it appears in at least two other early Chinese texts describing the same domestication milestone \u2014 the <em>Kongzi Jiayu<\/em> (\u5b54\u5b50\u5bb6\u8bed), which attributes &#8220;harnessing ox and riding horse, taming wild beasts&#8221; to the Yellow Emperor, and the <em>Book of Han<\/em>&#8216;s (\u6c49\u4e66) biography of Dong Zhongshu, which uses the same four-character phrase in a broader list of early domestications.<\/p>\n      <p>What every version of the passage agrees on: it describes <strong>two working animals serving complementary transport roles<\/strong>, not a relationship between two people. The ox&#8217;s steadiness and the horse&#8217;s speed are named together for what they contribute to carrying loads and reaching distant places \u2014 expanding transport and the movement of goods and people, not a statement about how a Horse-sign person and an Ox-sign person get along with each other.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"what-this-means\">\n      <h2>What that leaves for the actual pairing<\/h2>\n      <p>Keep three separate facts apart instead of folding them into one. First: none of the three compatibility groupings used on this site&#8217;s pages names Horse and Ox as a harmony pair or a clash \u2014 that&#8217;s settled by the spacing math above. Second: the wider Earthly Branch system does name them, through Six Harms (\u4e11\u5348\u76f8\u5bb3), sourced to <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em>. Third: a separate, older textual tradition, \u670d\u725b\u4e58\u9a6c, also names ox and horse together, but it answers &#8220;how did these two working animals divide ancient labor,&#8221; not &#8220;do these two signs suit each other.&#8221; Reading either \u4e11\u5348\u76f8\u5bb3 or \u670d\u725b\u4e58\u9a6c as a simple verdict \u2014 &#8220;harmful&#8221; or &#8220;compatible&#8221; \u2014 borrows the pairing&#8217;s shape without engaging what each source actually says.<\/p>\n      <p>Ox&#8217;s own profile describes what the sign needs as &#8220;respect for rhythm.&#8221; Horse&#8217;s own profile describes what the sign needs as &#8220;space with trust.&#8221; Those two needs point in different directions \u2014 Ox wants steadiness proven through repetition; Horse wants freedom that isn&#8217;t mistaken for distance. That difference cuts both ways: a partner who supplies patience where the other supplies momentum can round out what&#8217;s missing, or the mismatch in pace can leave both sides feeling unseen. Which pattern shows up depends on the two actual people and their full charts, not on any single traditional label alone.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"common-mistakes\">\n      <h2>Common mistakes<\/h2>\n      <ul>\n        <li><strong>Treating &#8220;\u670d\u725b\u4e58\u9a6c&#8221; as a compatibility verdict.<\/strong> The phrase describes an ancient division of labor between two working animals, documented in the <em>Yijing<\/em>&#8216;s Xici commentary and echoed in the <em>Kongzi Jiayu<\/em> and the <em>Book of Han<\/em> \u2014 not a reading of the Horse-and-Ox pairing.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Assuming Three Harmonies, Six Harmonies, and Six Conflicts are the whole traditional branch system.<\/strong> They&#8217;re the three this site&#8217;s compatibility pages use. A fourth named category, Six Harms, does pair Ox and Horse (\u4e11\u5348\u76f8\u5bb3) \u2014 falling outside the first three doesn&#8217;t mean the wider system is silent.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Treating percentage match scores as calculated.<\/strong> None of the Three Harmonies, Six Harmonies, or Six Conflicts rules used on this page produces a number like &#8220;50% compatible.&#8221; Scores like that are a modern presentation convention, not an output of these three traditional groupings.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Reading the Yellow Emperor attribution as a firm historical date.<\/strong> The <em>Yijing<\/em> passage credits the ox-and-horse domestication to the era of legendary sage-rulers; that places it in classical tradition, not on a verified timeline.<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"go-deeper\">\n      <h2>Read it for two real charts<\/h2>\n      <p>Everything above is the general pattern for the sign pairing. If you want it for two specific people \u2014 not a generic reading \u2014 these go a step further:<\/p>\n      <div class=\"tzl-note\">\n        <p><strong>Couple Compatibility Report<\/strong> \u2014 both birth charts side by side: how the two signs and their elements read together, where they align and where they pull in different directions. <a href=\"\/product\/couple-chinese-zodiac-compatibility-report\/\">See the report &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n        <p><strong>Personalized Reading<\/strong> \u2014 one person&#8217;s full stem-branch write-up: element balance, the signs they traditionally match or clash with, and year-specific traditional symbolism. <a href=\"\/product\/personalized-reading\/\">See the reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card tzl-faq\" id=\"faq\">\n      <h2>Horse and Ox compatibility: FAQ<\/h2>\n      <details><summary>Are Horse and Ox compatible in the Chinese zodiac?<\/summary><p>Within the three systems this site&#8217;s compatibility pages use \u2014 Three Harmonies, Six Harmonies, and Six Conflicts \u2014 no, they aren&#8217;t named together. In the wider Earthly Branch relationship system, however, Ox and Horse do form one of the Six Harms (\u4e11\u5348\u76f8\u5bb3), sourced to the Ming-dynasty text <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em>. Neither system is a final verdict on any two real people; how the pairing plays out depends on the two full charts involved.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>What is \u4e11\u5348\u76f8\u5bb3 (ch\u01d2u w\u01d4 xi\u0101ng h\u00e0i), the Ox-Horse Six Harm?<\/summary><p>It&#8217;s one of six named pairs in the Six Harms (\u516d\u5bb3) system, documented in the Ming-dynasty <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em>. The text describes \u5348&#8217;s &#8220;vigorous fire&#8221; as overwhelming \u4e11&#8217;s &#8220;weakened metal,&#8221; calling this \u5b98\u9b3c\u76f8\u5bb3 \u2014 a classical five-elements reading, not a verified mechanism. This site&#8217;s Three Harmonies, Six Harmonies, and Six Conflicts pages don&#8217;t currently build out a Six Harms framework, so this page states it directly rather than omitting it.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>What does \u670d\u725b\u4e58\u9a6c (f\u00fa ni\u00fa ch\u00e9ng m\u01ce) mean?<\/summary><p>It&#8217;s a four-character phrase from the <em>Yijing<\/em>&#8216;s Xici commentary meaning &#8220;harnessing the ox and riding the horse.&#8221; It describes an ancient division of labor between the two animals \u2014 oxen for drawing heavy loads, horses for carrying people or vehicles farther. It is a separate tradition from Six Harms and is not a statement about the compatibility between the Horse and Ox zodiac signs.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Is Horse and Ox a Three Harmonies (trine) match?<\/summary><p>No. Ox&#8217;s Three Harmonies trio is Snake, Rooster, and Ox. Horse&#8217;s is Tiger, Horse, and Dog. The two trios don&#8217;t overlap.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>What is Ox&#8217;s real Six Harmonies partner?<\/summary><p>Rat. Ox and Rat are one of the six traditional &#8220;secret friend&#8221; (Six Harmonies) pairs. Horse&#8217;s Six Harmonies partner is Goat.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Is this page a substitute for a personalized reading?<\/summary><p>No. It explains the general cultural pattern for the Horse-Ox pairing as a symbolic tradition \u2014 not a prediction, and not medical, financial, or relationship advice. For two specific birth charts, see the Couple Compatibility Report linked above.<\/p><\/details>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"next-steps\">\n      <h2>Where to go next<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"tzl-links\">\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-compatibility\/\"><strong>Compatibility Hub<\/strong>The full chart, calculator, and best\/worst matches for all 12 signs.<span>See the hub &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/compatibility-horse\/\"><strong>Horse Compatibility<\/strong>Horse&#8217;s full breakdown against all 12 signs.<span>Read Horse &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/compatibility-ox\/\"><strong>Ox Compatibility<\/strong>Ox&#8217;s full breakdown against all 12 signs.<span>Read Ox &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-three-harmonies\/\"><strong>Three Harmonies<\/strong>The four trine groups, explained in full.<span>Read Three Harmonies &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-six-harmonies\/\"><strong>Six Harmonies<\/strong>The six &#8220;secret friend&#8221; one-to-one pairs.<span>Read Six Harmonies &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-six-harms\/\"><strong>Six Harms<\/strong>All six \u516d\u5bb3 pairs, including Ox-Horse, sourced to Sanming Tonghui.<span>Read Six Harms &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/horse-monkey-compatibility\/\"><strong>Horse and Monkey<\/strong>Another pairing the same three rules don&#8217;t name.<span>Read Horse-Monkey &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"editorial-note\">\n      <h2>Editorial note<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"tzl-source-note\">The Three Harmonies, Six Harmonies, and Six Conflicts groupings referenced here follow this site&#8217;s own <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-three-harmonies\/\">Three Harmonies<\/a>, <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-six-harmonies\/\">Six Harmonies<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-opposite-signs\/\">Six Conflicts<\/a> reference pages; the full Six Harms list is on this site&#8217;s own <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-six-harms\/\">Six Harms<\/a> reference page. The Six Harms (\u516d\u5bb3) list and the traditional explanation of \u4e11\u5348\u76f8\u5bb3 are drawn from <a href=\"https:\/\/gj.zdic.net\/zibu\/366\/10031.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> (\u4e09\u547d\u901a\u4f1a)<\/a>, a Ming-dynasty fate-calculation text compiled by Wan Min-ying, via its &#8220;\u8bba\u516d\u5bb3&#8221; (On the Six Harms) chapter. The <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u670d\u725b\u4e58\u9a6c<\/span> passage and its &#8220;harnessing the ox and riding the horse&#8221; translation are drawn from the <em>Yijing<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ctext.org\/book-of-changes\/xi-ci-xia\/zh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xici (\u7cfb\u8f9e\u4e0b) commentary<\/a>, hosted in full by the Chinese Text Project; its appearance in the <em>Kongzi Jiayu<\/em> and the <em>Book of Han<\/em>&#8216;s biography of Dong Zhongshu is noted in published commentary on the phrase&#8217;s textual history. This page explains a cultural lens for the Horse-and-Ox pairing for interest and education. It is not a prediction, and not medical, financial, or relationship advice.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n  {\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[\n    {\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Are Horse and Ox compatible in the Chinese zodiac?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Within the three systems this site's compatibility pages use \u2014 Three Harmonies, Six Harmonies, and Six Conflicts \u2014 no, they aren't named together. In the wider Earthly Branch relationship system, however, Ox and Horse do form one of the Six Harms (\u4e11\u5348\u76f8\u5bb3), sourced to the Ming-dynasty text Sanming Tonghui. 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