The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from女書 /女书
- English todayNüshu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 女書 /女书 (Nǚshū, literally “women's script”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nüshu
Today it means: A syllabic script which was used exclusively among the ethnic Yao women of Jiangyong, Hunan, China, from the 9th century, used to write the Xiangnan Tuhua lect of Chinese, which mostly fell out of use during the 20th century. Full definition →
Mandarin 女書 /女书