U+1B1B8 "𛆸" Nushu Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛆸

U+1B1B8 "𛆸" Nushu Character-# is a specific glyph from the Nushu script, a unique syllabary historically used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong region of Hunan Province, China. This character belongs to the Nushu block of Unicode, encoded to preserve and digitally represent a writing system that was traditionally passed down among women for creating poetry, correspondence, and expressions of personal emotion, often kept secret from men. As part of an endangered language tradition, U+1B1B8 helps facilitate the study, archiving, and revitalization of Nushu, which UNESCO has recognized as a form of intangible cultural heritage, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this rare historical script can be accessed and rendered on modern digital platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B1B8
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 𛆸
HTML Hex Encoding 𛆸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x86 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDDB8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B1B8
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\uddb8

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 40.03

Unihan Properties

kNSHU_Reading swe42