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[edit] Summary

A look at the history of Chinese character Unicode U5974.

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.

Below: one particular quasi-calligraphic modern rendering of this character.

For vector versions of these graphics, see: [1]

The character displays in your browser as follows: 奴

Notice that this character is the historical source for the Japanese kana syllabary symbols for "nu" ぬヌ (see Katakana#History and Hiragana#History).

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(del) (cur) 19:10, 28 December 2005 . . AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) . . 150×279 (3,474 bytes) (replacing bitmap-derived version with vector-derived version )
(del) (rev) 15:51, 15 December 2005 . . AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) . . 150×279 (3,046 bytes) (Anti-aliasing top, slightly tweakling bottom)
(del) (rev) 22:27, 14 December 2005 . . AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) . . 150×279 (2,636 bytes) (A look at the history of Chinese character Unicode U5974. 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. Below: one)