U+1B23A "𛈺" Nushu Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛈺

U+1B23A "𛈺" Nushu Character-# is a glyph from the Nüshu script, a syllabic writing system historically created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong region of Hunan Province, China, to express their thoughts and emotions in a male-dominated society. This specific character, identified only by its number within the Unicode standard, represents one of several hundred unique symbols that form a phonetic script, where each character corresponds to a syllable rather than a concept. Nüshu was traditionally written on fans, embroidery, and letters, serving as a secret language for women to share poems, stories, and personal narratives, and it is now recognized as a rare cultural heritage, with this encoded character helping to preserve and digitally archive the script for future study and appreciation.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B23A
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 𛈺
HTML Hex Encoding 𛈺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x88 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDE3A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B23A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\ude3a

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 46.03

Unihan Properties

kNSHU_Reading pang44