·     Do not confuse with ni:

o wi consists of two distinct “leaves” – a longer one and a shorter one, going in opposite directions whereas ni consists of only one “leaf” (which is not really a leaf, just called that here for the sake of comparison to wi).

o In wi, each of the “leaves” has only one spine inside whereas ni has multiple wavy lines inside the single “leaf”.

o In wi, the touching dots are always on the outside of the long leaf, not touching the single spine whereas in ni, each of the long flowing lines in the middle often (but not always) end in one of the dots (so this cannot be used as a distinguishing characteristic).

o AT-E1168-lecture5.t0:11:22 explains that in later times some scribes conflated ni and wi.

·     Do not confuse wi with the reduced variant of NAL:

o Syllabogram wi has only two “leaves” while NAL has three (in both cases probably the sheathes of the corncob)

o Syllabogram wi has dots on the “outside the long leaf” whereas NAL has them on the “inside”.

o Syllabogram wi usually has more dots than NAL – 4 or more for wi, and only 2-3 for NAL.