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Friday, 8 May 2020 at 14:01

๐—›ฏ [ยนvu'โ‚ƒ] 'old, decayed, withered' is constructed from the surrounding parts of ๐—›ธ [ยนvuโ‚ƒ] 'burnt, charred' (phonetic) and the right side of ๐˜’บ [ยฒnarโ‚] 'aged person' {๐—›ธ๐˜ž๐˜’บ๐—กผ} babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiLโ€ฆ


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Friday, 8 May 2020 at 14:18

The definition in Sea of Writing concludes: ๐˜—ฝ๐—กช๐—‹š๐—ฎ๐——™๐˜˜ฅ "it is what is called having exceeded its lifespan".


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Friday, 8 May 2020 at 14:39

I only know of a single example of ๐—›ฏ in literary text, at the end of the 'ritual language' verse for the 3rd month in the Ode on Monthly Pleasures ใ€Š๐—ผ‘๐—ผ‘๐—ซ‰๐—Šฑใ€‹ :

๐˜ด‡๐—พ•๐—ฃฟ๐—ฆต๐—›๐—…‹๐—›ฏ

The swallow has a big face (glossed as ๐—™ฝ๐˜…ž = ไบบๆƒ… '[bestows] favours'), the trees are not withered.


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