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What make Nvshu Unique?

The ancient people worship of birds and people get inspiration from bird totem.

It looks like tracks made from a bird. The comparisons between Nvshu, an ancient Chinese script for women, and birds are easy to draw.

Nvshu characters are an italic variant form of Kaishu Chinese characters, as can be seen in the name of the script, though some have been substantially modified to better fit embroidery patterns. The strokes of the characters are in the form of dots, horizontals, virgules, and arcs.

The script is written from top to bottom or, when horizontal, from right to left, as is traditional for Chinese. Also like standard Chinese, vertical lines are truly vertical, while lines crossing them are angled from the perpendicular.

Unlike Chinese, Nvshu writers value characters written with very fine, almost threadlike, lines as a mark of fine penmanship.

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