Nüshu character lu35

It can match either word by sound; context decides.

One Unicode Nüshu map links the Chinese characters 堵 (“block”) and 赌 (“gamble”) to 𛋦, giving the local Jiangyong reading as lu35, a Latin-letter-and-number pronunciation label. Nüshu writes spoken sounds, so one sign can represent similarly pronounced words rather than carry either Chinese word’s meaning by itself.

Unicode’s sample glyph is a reference, not a fixed handwriting template; fonts can draw the same Nüshu character differently.

What did women write in Nüshu?

They wrote letters, poems, songs and personal accounts.

Historically, women in Jiangyong County, Hunan, used Nüshu to write and sing in their spoken language. They put texts on fans and handkerchiefs, stitched some into cloth, and passed the writing along through reading and song gatherings.

Nüshu adapted Chinese written characters to record speech by sound, though its exact beginnings are disputed. One of the earliest documented traces is a Taiping-era coin die from the 1850s, inscribed “All women under heaven, sisters in one family.” The message expresses sisterhood; it is not a fixed gloss for 𛋦.