U+1B240 "𛉀" Nushu Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛉀

U+1B240 "𛉀" Nushu Character-# is a specific glyph from the Nüshu script, a unique syllabary historically used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County region of Hunan Province, China. This script, which dates back several centuries, was developed as a secret form of communication to express personal emotions and experiences, including songs, stories, and letters, in a patriarchal society where women were often denied formal education in Chinese characters. The character 𛉀, like others in the Nüshu repertoire, represents a phonetic syllable rather than a logogram, and its inclusion in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitize this endangered cultural heritage, allowing for its study and use in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B240
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 𛉀
HTML Hex Encoding 𛉀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x89 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDE40
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B240
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\ude40

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 46.12

Unihan Properties

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