甲骨文中的“男”字，有置于人名之前称“某男”，或在人名之后称“男某”，与甲骨文中“侯”、“伯”、“子”的用法同，应为一爵称。西周早期的青铜铭文和《尚书·周书》中时代较早的几篇文语，皆提到周的“男”爵。“因于殷礼”的周制是承商而来，亦是商时已有“男”爵之名的佐证。 The word “male” in Oracle, called “a male” before the name of a man or “male a” after the name of a person, should be used in the same way as the usage of “Hou”, “Boy” and “Son” in Oracle Jazz said. The bronze inscriptions of the early Western Zhou Dynasty and the earlier essays in the Shangshu Zhouzhu refer to the Zhou male knight. The system of “Yin Yin” is based on the commercial system and is also evidence of the name “male” in business.