Nushu is a Unicode block containing characters from the Nüshu script, which is a syllabary derived from Chinese characters that was used exclusively among women in Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China.
An iteration mark for Nüshu is encoded in the Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation block at U+16FE1.
For technical reasons "Nüshu" is spelled as "Nushu" in the Unicode Standard. Nüshu characters do not have descriptive character names, but have names derived algorithmically from their code point value (e.g. U+1B170 is named NUSHU CHARACTER-1B170).
Block
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Nushu block:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 10.0 U+1B170..1B2FB 396 doc) N3287 N3322 N3337 N3340 N3426 N3433 N3462R N3463 doc) N3497 N3449 doc) N3598 doc) doc) N3705 N3719 N4341 N4366 N4376 N4442 N4451 N4461 N4472R N4513 doc) N4533 N4556 N4561 N4562 N4610 doc) N4626 N4639 N4647 N4659 N4652 doc) N4690 N4689 N4693 N4697 N4739
Fonts As of 28 March 2024, 3 fonts are known to support Nūshu: Noto Sans Nushu. Noto Traditional Nushu. Unicode Nushu.
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