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Updated 10 November, 2024 • recent changes scripts/fontlist • leave a comment

This page provides samples of text in various languages, grouped by script. You'll need a font on your system to view each of these sample texts; see a list of fonts supported by macOS, Windows11, Noto, and SIL.

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Nushu

13thC – today
Limited usage (low uptake)
Lineage: Oracle bones > Bronze script > Seal script > Clerical script > Regular script > Nüshu
Siblings: Balinese, Baybayin scripts, Javanese, Lontara, Makasar, Old Sundanese, Rencong, Rejang
Nüshu (𛆁𛈬‎) is an East Asian logo-syllabary used by ethnic Yao women in Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China, mainly for the Chinese dialect Xiangnan Tuhua. It almost went extinct, but from the early 21st century there have been official efforts to revitalize the script, as well as indications of renewed interest among the wider public. Nüshu works were a way for women to lament by communicating sorrows, commiserating over Chinese patriarchy, and establishing connections with an empathetic community by letters and songs. Nüshu text is read in vertical columns that progress from right to left. Words are not separated using spaces. Unicode 16 has 1 dedicated block, comprising 396 characters.

Xiangnan Tuhua

𛇤𛅰𛈕𛅸𛇃𛆤𛈕 𛇂𛇒𛇢𛈑𛈡𛇘𛇨𛇸𛈈𛈘𛈨𛈸𛇌𛇜𛇼𛈌𛈜𛈬

Source: Noto fonts preview text, followed by a random selection of Nushu characters.
URL: https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Nushu

Notes

General usage

The default text used is article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, taken from this Unicode page, wherever I could find it. I created a few instances myself, where it was missing, and occasionally I resorted to other texts or even arbitrary lists of characters. I'm indebted to Omniglot for many of the less common samples.

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Metadata

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Passing parameters

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