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Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 13:10
𘓎 [¹swi₄] 'beautiful' is constructed from the left side of 𘓍 [²si₄] 'enemy' (phonetic) and the left side of 𗵽 [²lu'₃] 'beautiful' {𘓍𘊱𗵽𘊱} babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiL…
Sea of Tangut Characters @TangutSea
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Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 13:27
There are many Tangut characters meaning 'beautiful'. This one only occurs in the word 𗶉𘓎 [¹zyr₄ ¹swi₄] given in Homophones (babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Tongyin…). The only literary usage of this word
that I know of is in the Odes (nos. 2 and 5) where it occurs three times.