What 𛇿 means
Its recorded reading is kou33. The digits mark pitch, not extra sounds. Nüshu signs mostly represent syllables, and different words pronounced alike can share one; surrounding text resolves which word is meant.
Nüshu’s slanted signs adapt Chinese character forms to local speech. A coin from the Taiping Rebellion (1851–64), a civil war in China, bears a Nüshu inscription. A 2004 field study records a legend that Hu Yuxiu, a woman in the emperor’s palace, invented the script to send messages home. Scholars have proposed older Chinese roots or a later local development. By the late twentieth century, everyday use had waned and study and preservation brought wider attention.
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Who writes 𛇿
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𛇿 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 𛇿
- Search it as
- nüshu · nushu · women's script · kou33
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𛇿\1B1FFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.