What 𛆱 means
A Jiangyong syllable; its sentence supplies the word.
Unicode lists its romanized Jiangyong reading as ie44. A Nüshu syllable may represent several homophonous local words, so a message containing only 𛆱 has no certain English translation.
How did Nüshu take shape?
It let local women write speech and share songs.
Nüshu adapted Han-character forms to write Jiangyong speech, which many women could not write in Han characters. Its oldest known artifact is a Taiping-era coin die (1851–1864) with a Nüshu motto: “All women in the world are one family.” By the late twentieth century, few fluent writers remained; preservation brought wider attention.
Part of the collection
Who writes 𛆱
Loading…
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIt gives the Jiangyong syllable, but no single English word is certain.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𛆱 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.
More like this
8
How to type or find 𛆱
- Search it as
- nüshu · nushu · jiangyong · nüshu script · women's writing · 女书
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𛆱\1B1B1Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.