What 𛆍 means
Women used Nüshu to write their local speech. Its home was Jiangyong County, in Hunan Province, China. The script recorded local speech one syllable at a time, using forms based on Chinese characters. Many women had little access to schooling in written Chinese.
Women used it for songs, letters between sworn sisters (women bound by a sisterhood vow), and booklets of good wishes given to a bride on the third day after her wedding. The earliest known surviving Nüshu artifact is a coin minted under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a rebel state in China (1851–1864); it shows the script was in use by then, not when it began. These writings later became a focus of study and preservation.
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Who writes 𛆍
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𛆍 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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- nüshu · la44 · jiangyong
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𛆍\1B18DCodes and encoding1 code points
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