U+1B208 "𛈈" Nushu Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛈈

U+1B208 "𛈈" Nushu Character-# is a specific glyph from the Nüshu script, a unique syllabic writing system historically created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong county of Hunan Province, China, to express personal feelings, stories, and songs in a form of resistance against male-dominated literacy. This character, part of the Nushu block encoded in Unicode version 10.0, represents a particular phonetic syllable or morpheme within the scripts limited yet expressive inventory, and it serves as a crucial digital preservation tool for a cultural heritage that was once passed down orally and in handwritten manuscripts. By including this character in the universal character set, Unicode helps safeguard Nüshu from extinction and facilitates its study, revitalization, and use in modern digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B208
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 𛈈
HTML Hex Encoding 𛈈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x88 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDE08
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B208
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\ude08

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 44.03

Unihan Properties

kNSHU_Reading vang33