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Saturday, 16 May 2020 at 22:50
๐ผ [ยนkwoโ] 'to wet oneself' (to wet the bed?) is constructed from the whole of ๐ป [ยนkwoโ] (a family name) (phonetic) and the whole of ๐ฎ [ยนbiqโ] 'urine' {๐ป๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ} babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiLโฆ
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Saturday, 16 May 2020 at 22:58
The definition of ๐ผ [ยนkwoโ] in the Sea of Writing is "to urinate; it is what is called to leak urine without realizing it" ๐ผ๐ซ๐ฃช๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐. This dictionary-only character is a good example of Tangut vocabulary which would never be attested in normal written sources.
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Saturday, 16 May 2020 at 23:24
Incidentally, this is only one of twelve entries in the surviving parts of Sea of Writing which derive a Tangut character from two other whole characters.