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A script written by women.
Also known as: Women's script, Jiangyong women's writing
The script used by women in Jiangyong County, Hunan, and largely unread by men.
Writes the local Chinese dialect syllabically, in a script used by and transmitted among women.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A syllabary rather than a character script, so it records sound where the Chinese characters around it record meaning — the two systems coexisted in the same county writing the same language differently.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Slender italic characters of fine curved and diagonal strokes, noticeably lighter and narrower than Chinese characters.