U+1CC74 "𜱴" Left-Facing Snake Head with Closed Mouth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𜱴

U+1CC74 "𜱴" Left-Facing Snake Head with Closed Mouth is a rare and recently encoded symbol belonging to the supplementary multilingual plane, specifically assigned to the Sutton SignWriting block, which is used for representing sign language gestures in a written form. In the context of SignWriting, this character visually depicts a snake’s head oriented to the left with its mouth closed, and it serves as an iconic unit to convey a specific handshape, facial expression, or movement element within sign language transcription. Its design is abstract yet representational, reflecting the system’s goal of capturing the visual and spatial aspects of signed communication through standardized glyphs. Because of its specialized use, it is not commonly encountered in general purpose text and is primarily of interest to linguists, sign language researchers, and developers working with SignWriting tools and fonts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1CC74
Version Added 16.0
Name Left-Facing Snake Head with Closed Mouth
Block Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𜱴
HTML Hex Encoding 𜱴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9C 0xB1 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD833 0xDC74
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001CC74
C/C++/Java Escape \ud833\udc74

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other