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Saturday, 16 May 2020 at 22:50

๐˜ผ [ยนkwoโ‚] 'to wet oneself' (to wet the bed?) is constructed from the whole of ๐˜ป [ยนkwoโ‚] (a family name) (phonetic) and the whole of ๐—ฎš [ยนbiqโ‚„] 'urine' {๐˜ป๐˜“ณ๐—ฎš๐˜“ณ} babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiLโ€ฆ



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Saturday, 16 May 2020 at 22:58

The definition of ๐˜ผ [ยนkwoโ‚] in the Sea of Writing is "to urinate; it is what is called to leak urine without realizing it" ๐˜ผ๐—ซ‚๐—ฃช๐˜ƒž๐—…‹๐˜‘ฌ๐—ฎš๐—ณ†๐˜ƒก๐——™๐˜˜ฅ๐˜ƒž. 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.



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