Shuishu
Script details
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| Code | Shui |
| Script type | logo-syllabary |
| Region | East Asian |
| Status | Current |
| Direction | vertical (RTL) and horizontal (LTR) |
| Baseline | centered |
| Case | no |
| White space | none |
| Complex behaviors | |
| OpenType code | unspecified |
| ISO 15924 Number | 530 (ideographic) |
Script description
Section titled “Script description”The Shuishu script (also called Sui) is used by the Shui people in the Guizhou province of China.
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It is mainly used by the Shui religious priests (Shuishu masters) but it is also used for research and documentation. The script is sometimes even incorporated into needlework.
The Shui language contains forty-four consonants, eight vowels, eight diphthongs and eight tones. The characters in the Shuishu script consist of Chinese variants, primitive pictographs and abstract symbols. It is usually written vertically downward and then towards the left without punctuation.
Shuishu has close to 500 characters. Each Shuishu character basically expresses a concept and stands for a syllable.
Languages that use this script
Section titled “Languages that use this script”There are no known languages that use this script.
Unicode status
Section titled “Unicode status”The Shuishu script (also called Sui script) is not yet in Unicode. Shuishu has a tentative allocation at U+1B300..U+1B5FF in the Roadmap to the SMP
for the Unicode Standard.
Resources
Section titled “Resources”- ScriptSource page for Shuishu script - all about scripts, languages, and writing systems