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Wednesday, 20 May 2020 at 22:04

𗬶 [¹kwa₂] 'to trample' (?) is constructed from the right side of 𘎶 [²kwy₁] 'crooked finger; lame' (?) and the left side of 𘑀 [²tyq₄] 'to break, to smash' {𘎶𗡼𘑀𘊱} babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiL…



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Wednesday, 20 May 2020 at 22:30

Another dictionary-only character which is hard to be certain the precise meaning of. The component 𘢕 should only occur on the right side of a character, but it is perversely placed on the left side of the character 𗬶 [¹kwa₂], such is the unpredictability of the Tangut script.



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