U+1B2AA "𛊪" Nushu Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛊪

U+1B2AA "𛊪" Nushu Character-# is a specific symbol from the Nushu script, a unique syllabary historically used exclusively by women in the Hunan province of China, primarily in the Jiangyong county area. This script, often written in a curved, cursive-like style, was developed as a means of private communication and self-expression among women who were largely denied access to formal education in Chinese characters. The character itself, encoded in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane to preserve and digitize this endangered cultural heritage, belongs to a body of approximately 1,200 distinct glyphs that represent syllables rather than individual words or tones, allowing for a written record of songs, stories, and personal correspondences that have become invaluable for understanding the social and emotional lives of rural Chinese women from the 19th century onward.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B2AA
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 𛊪
HTML Hex Encoding 𛊪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x8A 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDEAA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B2AA
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udeaa

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 51.15

Unihan Properties

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