U+1B258 "𛉘" Nushu Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛉘

U+1B258 "𛉘" Nushu Character-# is a specific glyph from the Nüshu script, a syllabic writing system historically used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong region of Hunan Province, China. This character, identified only by its numeric placeholder "#" in the Unicode standard's name, represents one of the many distinct symbols in the Nüshu repertoire, which was employed to compose poetry, letters, and personal narratives, often conveying emotions and experiences that were forbidden in formal male-dominated Chinese literature. While the exact phonetic or semantic value of this particular character remains context dependent and may vary among surviving manuscripts, its inclusion in Unicode ensures its digital preservation, aiding efforts to document and study this endangered script, which saw a revival of interest in the late 20th century as scholars and descendants worked to record its remaining texts and transmit its cultural legacy.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B258
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 𛉘
HTML Hex Encoding 𛉘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x89 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDE58
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B258
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\ude58

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 47.14

Unihan Properties

kNSHU_Reading ku21