Nüshu syllable sign tshu35

𛊾 is a Nüshu syllable sign, read tshu35; it marks sound rather than meaning. Nüshu, “women’s writing,” derived from Chinese characters, recorded local speech in Jiangyong, Hunan; historically, women used it for poems, letters and wedding booklets shared with pledged friends. The earliest inscription is on a coin from China’s Taiping revolt (1851–1864); the first written account dates to 1933. China recognized it as cultural heritage in 2006.

Text symbol

What 𛊾 means

𛊾 is the nushu character-1b2be. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Nushu block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𛊾 is a single code point, U1B2BE. In HTML that is 𛊾, and in CSS \1B2BE.

Part of the collection

𛅰

Nüshu Script (Women's Writing)

Who writes 𛊾

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Questions people ask

Why does 𛊾 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Nushu block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.