U+1B289 "𛊉" Nushu Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛊉

U+1B289 "𛊉" Nushu Character-# is a specific glyph from the Nushu script, a syllabary historically used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong region of Hunan Province, China, to write a local dialect of Chinese. This script, which dates back several centuries, was kept secret from men and often used for personal correspondence, poetry, and storytelling, serving as a powerful tool for female expression and solidarity in a patriarchal society. The character U+1B289 itself is one of over 400 encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Nushu block, added in version 10.0 in 2017 to preserve and digitize this endangered writing system for modern use. While its precise phonetic or semantic meaning is tied to its context within Nushu texts, each character in the script represents a syllable, and this particular glyph contributes to the rich linguistic heritage of a unique female cultural tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B289
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 𛊉
HTML Hex Encoding 𛊉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x8A 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDE89
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B289
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\ude89

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 50.04

Unihan Properties

kNSHU_Reading ie13