U+1B19A "𛆚" Nushu Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛆚

U+1B19A "𛆚" Nushu Character-# is a specific glyph from the Nushu script, a syllabary historically used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County area of Hunan Province, China, to write a local variant of the Xiang Chinese dialect. This character represents one of the many phonetic syllables within the Nushu system, which was developed and passed down secretly among women as a means of expressing personal emotions, stories, and correspondence in a society where formal education and literacy in Chinese characters were largely denied to them. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally encode this endangered and culturally significant writing system, allowing for its study and continued use in modern technology.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B19A
Version Added 10.0
Name Nushu Character-#
Block Nushu
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛆚
HTML Hex Encoding 𛆚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x86 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDD9A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B19A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udd9a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Nushu
Script Extensions Nushu
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
kNSHU_DubenSrc 38.08

Unihan Properties

kNSHU_Reading hau35