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Core sense: a deviation from the vertical.

• Physical/Liquid: To tip or incline a vessel; includes intentional actions (pouring, libating) and accidental ones (upsetting, spilling).
• Structural/Political: To lean or collapse. Often describes the process of failing or a slide toward ruin regarding buildings or political entities.
• Psychological/Abstract: To incline one's heart or ear; indicates undivided attention, preference, or bias.

Functions both transitively and intransitively:

• Intransitive: To tilt or collapse (e.g., a wall leans).
• Transitive: To tip over or overthrow (e.g., to pour a jar; to topple a regime).

While some glossaries list "overflow," the glyph typically denotes the action of tipping that causes a spill rather than the state of being full to the brim.

Simplified variant: U+503E.

Determine if the "tilt" is an external action applied to an object or an internal loss of stability within the subject. In abstract contexts, distinguish between positive inclination (devotion/attention) and negative inclination (bias/favoritism).