U+1B1C8 "𛇈" Nushu Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1B1C8 "𛇈" Nushu Character-# is a glyph from the Nushu script, a unique syllabary historically used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong region of Hunan Province, China, to compose poetry, letters, and personal narratives free from male scrutiny. Enclosed within the Supplementary Multilingual Plane in the Nushu block, this specific character represents a phonetic syllable or semantic element within the writing system, which comprises over 1,000 distinct characters derived from modified Chinese ideographs and local embroidery motifs. Though its exact linguistic value is tied to the diminishing number of fluent speakers and surviving texts, the preservation of "𛇈" and its kin through Unicode encoding helps safeguard the cultural heritage and resistance of Nushu's female creators against historical exclusion from formal education.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𛇈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𛇈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x9B 0x87 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD82C 0xDDC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001B1C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud82c\uddc8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties