Sawndip character for raeuz

It is a Zhuang character in Sawndip. Its recorded reading is raeuz; Unicode’s asterisk marks this reading as outside the Standard Zhuang lexicon. In Standard Zhuang, raeuz means “we/us” including the listener.

Sawndip adapts Chinese character shapes and parts, and adds local forms, to write Zhuang. Its beginnings are debated: some scholars cite a 7th-century inscription as early evidence, while others treat that text as a precursor rather than Sawndip proper. The script was used for songs, ritual texts, stories, family records, and contracts; spellings varied by writer.

This glyph is sourced to the Ancient Zhuang Character Dictionary (1989). Standard Zhuang writes the inclusive pronoun raeuz in Latin letters.