A look at the history of Chinese character Unicode U5974. The modern Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of this character is nu² or nú, while the ancient Chinese pronunciation was probably often more like no. This character is the historical origin of the nu Kana syllabary signs in Japanese (ぬ ヌ -- see
en:Katakana#History and
en:Hiragana#History).
Above: a schematized form of the earliest (quasi-pictographic) versions of this character, showing an apparent kneeling woman on the left, and a depiction of a right hand on the right. In the early forms of the character, the "hand" radical could also appear on the left; this variant became the
character U36A2 (now obsolete, and not included in most modern Chinese fonts). For some references on early forms, see image description page
Image:U5973-radical-38_early-form.svg .
Below: one particular quasi-calligraphic rendering of the modern version of this character U5974.
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Français : Histoire de caractère chinois (U5974 dans Unicode) dont la forme originelle contient une représentation d'une femme agenouillée.
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A look at the history of Chinese character Unicode U5974. The modern Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of this character is ''nu²'' or ''nú'', while the ancient Chinese pronunciation was probably often more like ''no''. This character is the historical o
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Partial history of Chinese character U5974
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A look at the history of the Chinese character which is U5974 奴 in the Unicode character set encoding standard. The modern Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of this character is nu² or nú, while the ancient Chinese pronunciation was probably often more like no. This character is the origin of the nu Kana syllable signs in Japanese. Top: A schematized form of the earliest (quasi-pictographic) versions of this character, showing an apparent kneeling woman on the left, and a depiction of a right hand on the right. Bottom: One quasi-calligraphic rendering of the modern character.