Noto Sans Nüshu: A script created by women from a remote region enters the Google Fonts Noto Sans family | Alphabettes

Nüshu script enters Google Fonts Noto Sans typeface family.

with Noto Sans Regular in Latin, Chinese and Nüshu 一岁女，手上珠 (One year girl, hands with pearl) by Gao Yinxian 高银仙 (1902–1990) Reading time: 15min Note: To avoid any confusion in word meaning, I will use the following contractions: Chinese as Chinese spoken language. Hanzi as Chinese written characters (汉字). Nüshu as Nüshu script. Nüshu script as it is sounds redundant, as Nü (where the ü is pronounced like a French [u]) means ‘woman’ (女), and shū (书 – meaning more commonly ‘book’ but also ‘script’) stands for script already. Tuhua as local dialects (explanations further below).…

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