Jurchen

Script Details

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Data

ISO 15924 Jurc 510
Type Morphosyllabic
Family Hanzi
Direction RtL in vertical columns, TtB
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 1384
Inventor Wanyan Xiyin
Latest Date 1750 CE
Ancestry

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1996 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 350-363 Blackwell Publishing
Kara, Gyorgy 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Siniform Scripts of Inner Asia (Kitan and Jurchin), 235-237 Oxford University Press