What 𛆷 means
It gives a syllable; nearby words determine the sense.
Unicode gives “tswe44” as its common reading: its letters spell a Jiangyong syllable; 44 marks its tone or pitch. One Nüshu character can represent same-sounding local words, so nearby text supplies the meaning.
What did women write in Nüshu?
Letters, songs, life stories and wedding books.
Historically, women in Jiangyong, Hunan, used Nüshu, a syllabic script based on Chinese characters, to write local speech; many lacked education in Chinese characters. Women wrote to sworn sisters—close friends bound by a pledge—and gave brides sanzhaoshu (“third-day books”) on the third day after a wedding. Its use reaches at least the late imperial era; early 1930s reports discuss the script. Writers often burned or buried their work, so little early material survives. China recognized Nüshu as living cultural heritage in 2006.
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Who writes 𛆷
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𛆷 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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How to type or find 𛆷
- Search it as
- nüshu · nushu · 女书 · 女書
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𛆷\1B1B7Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.