日本語

Ruwish

留為語

Ruwish is a constructed language that I have been creating since August 2020.

Ruwish has no pronunciation. It has no spoken form, and every word is written only with ideographic characters. There are currently about 1,100 characters, and each one is built by combining several components, much like Chinese characters.

Grammatically, Ruwish is an isolating language: words never change their form. The basic word order is subject–verb–object (SVO), and adjectives come before the nouns they describe.

Gallery

A Ruwish poem of 8 lines of 4 characters, written vertically with a brush
A poem of 8 lines × 4 characters (September 17, 2024)
The opening of Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro translated into Ruwish, written vertically with a brush
The opening of Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro, translated into Ruwish (July 25, 2024)
Four stages of a drawing of a cicada gradually turning into a Ruwish character
How the character for “cicada” came to be
The Ruwish word for “thank you”
The word for “thank you”
The four characters for “autumn rain front”, written vertically in Ruwish script
“Autumn rain front” (Museum of Constructed Scripts, Autumn Special Exhibition, 2023)
Four Ruwish characters in orange, arranged 2 by 2 in imitation of an old Chinese seal style
A four-character idiom describing fragrant olive (osmanthus) in bloom, written in imitation of an old Chinese seal style (Museum of Constructed Scripts, Autumn Special Exhibition, 2023)

Status

Vocabulary
1,617 words
Entries in the ZpDIC Ruwish Dictionary
Last updated
2026.10.11

Grammar (in Japanese)

Dictionary

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