甲骨文中部分今释"競"之字,应释为"辡",金文中有类似字形者,也要随之改释。卜辞中,"辡"可用作人名或"联合祭祀"的意思,其"联合"的语义又偏重于祭祀等级和规格的差别对待,形成义素的对立统一,演化成后代的"辩"、"辨"等字。从语音和用法上看,"辡"与"比"、"并"、"夫夫"、"並"等可构成一组同源字。
Part of the characters that interpreted as "jing(競) " in oracle bone inscription should be rein-terpreted as "bian(辡) ",as well as the homologous characters in inscription on bronze. "Bian" was used as names of person,locations and a meaning of joint sacrifice.The meaning of joint also contains the connotation of difference. "Bian" maybe a differentiated graph of "bi(比) ",and it formed a group of cognate graphs with "bi", "bing(并) ", "ban(夫夫) ", "bing(並) " and so on.