The early Chinese histories above give three transcriptions of "Yamatai": 邪馬壹 ("Wei Zhi"), 邪馬臺 ("Hou Han Shu"), and 邪摩堆 ("Sui Shu"). The first syllable is consistently written with "yé" "a place name", which was used as a jiajie graphic-loan character for "yé" "interrogative sentence-final particle" and "xié" 邪 "evil; depraved". The second is written with "mǎ" "horse" or "mó" "rub; friction". The third syllable of "Yamatai" is written "yī" or "ichi" "faithful, committed; financial form of , one", "tái" or "platform; terrace" (cf. "Taiwan" 臺灣) or "duī" "pile; heap". Concerning the transcriptional difference between "Yamaichi" 邪馬壹 in the "Wei Zhi" and "Yamadai" or "Yamatai" 邪馬臺 in the "Hou Han Shu", Hong (1994:248-9) cites that "Yamaichi" was correct. Chen Shou, author of the ca. 297 "Wei Zhi", was writing about recent history based on personal observations; Fan Ye, author of the ca. 432 "Hou Han Shu", was writing about earlier events based on written sources. Hong says the "San Guo Zhi" uses "ichi" 壹 86 times and "dai" 臺 56 times, without confusing them.