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Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 1:16
๐ [ยนkanโ] 'to drive away' is constructed from the left side of ๐ [ยนshwoโ] 'to drive away', the lower middle of ๐ [chy'โ ?] 'to walk', and the right side of ๐ฐ [ยฒbonโ] 'quickly' {๐๐๐ฐ๐กผ} babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiLโฆ
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Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 23:09
๐ [ยนkanโ] 'to drive away' is a loan from Chinese ่ถ gวn 'to drive away'. I can only find one example of its use in literary text, in the Forest of Categories where we hear that "Marquess Wen [of Wei] was very angry, and caused [Ren Zuo] to be chased away" ๐ฉ๐บน๐ถ๐ฃ๐๐ผ๐๐๐ก๐ป.