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Saturday, 2 May 2020 at 11:17
๐ [ยนtsonโ] 'incomplete, not whole' is constructed from the top of ๐ [ยนchha'โ] 'above, on top of' and the right side of ๐ด [ยนseโ] 'blood' {๐๐ฅฆ๐ด๐กผ} babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiLโฆ
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Saturday, 2 May 2020 at 11:25
The derivation of 'incomplete' from 'above' and 'blood' makes absolutely no sense to me.
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Saturday, 2 May 2020 at 11:37
The only occurrence of this character in literary text that I know of is in the Tangut Proverbs (folio 17A):
๐นธ๐ฐญ๐ ๐ฅฆ๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐๐
A ten-storied tomb, if it does not have the top attached, a mountain peak incomplete
