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Characters written in mirror image.
Also known as: Sui script
The script used by Shui ritual specialists in southern China, in characters partly reversed from Chinese ones.
Records Shui ritual and divinatory texts in a small character repertoire.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Deliberately reverses Chinese characters, which is usually explained as making the script unreadable to outsiders who know Chinese — a script whose obscurity is a design feature rather than a limitation.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Square characters, many of them Chinese characters written in mirror image or inverted, alongside pictographs of the script's own.
Both are notations made deliberately hard to read by outsiders.