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Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 9:19
š± [Ā¹me'ā] 'semi-conscious' (?) is constructed from the right side of š® [Ā¹ghirā] 'to die' and the right side of šµ (meaning and reading unknown) {š®š”¼šµš”¼} babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiLā¦
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Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 9:31
Li Fanwen's definition as "ę¶ćę" = "bored, worried" really seems to miss the mark. The definition in Sea of Writing ends with the explanation š¶šš šš "when about to die the breathing is suppressed". The character does not occur in literary text.
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Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 9:45
The character from which the right side of š± [Ā¹me'ā] derives (šµ) is a hapax legomenon. Li Fanwen makes up a definition for it "(ęčæ· = to lose conscience") and gives it a definitive glyph form even though it is very unclear in Sea of Writing.
