女書

See also: 女书

Chinese

		female; woman; daughter	book; letter
trad. (女書)		女	書
simp. (女书)		女	书

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Nǚshū

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄩˇ ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): neoi⁵ syu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Nǚshū
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄩˇ ㄕㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Nyǔshu
    • Wade–Giles: Nü³-shu¹
    • Yale: Nyǔ-shū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Neushu
    • Palladius: Нюйшу (Njujšu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: neoi⁵ syu¹
    • Yale: néuih syū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: noey⁵ sy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nêu⁵ xu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɵy̯¹³ syː⁵⁵/

Proper noun

女書

1. (historical) Nüshu (syllabic script which was used exclusively among the ethnic Yao women of Jiangyong, Hunan, China)

Descendants

• → English: Nüshu, Nushu, Nyushu, Nü Shu, Nu Shu
• → Japanese: 女書(にょしょ) (Nyosho), 女書(にゅうしゅ) (Nyūshu), 女書(ニュウシュ) (Nyūshu)
• → Russian: ню̀й-шу́ (njùj-šú), ню̀йшу́ (njùjšú)

Japanese

女書 (Nyosho): “Nüshu” written in the Nüshu script (right to left).

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
女	書
にょ Grade: 1	しょ Grade: 2
goon

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 女書 / 女书 (Nǚshū, literally “women's script”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟o̞ɕo̞]

Proper noun

女(にょ)書(しょ) • (Nyosho) 

1. (historical) Nüshu (syllabic script which was used exclusively among the ethnic Yao women of Jiangyong, Hunan, China)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
女	書
にゅうしゅ
Grade: 1	Grade: 2
irregular

Borrowed from Mandarin 女書 / 女书 (Nǚshū, literally “women's script”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ɨːɕɨ]

Proper noun

女書(にゅうしゅ) or 女書(ニュウシュ) • (Nyūshu) 

1. Nüshu

See also

• 女書 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja