U+1CE1C "𜸜" Large Type Piece Upper Terminal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𜸜
U+1CE1C "𜸜" Large Type Piece Upper Terminal is a symbol defined within the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically belonging to the Sutton SignWriting script block where it functions as a structural component for representing sign language. This character depicts the upper terminal of a large type piece, used in SignWriting notation to indicate the configuration or positioning of an arm as it begins a movement, often with a specific handshape orientation. It serves as a fundamental building block for encoding the visual and spatial grammar of signed languages into written form, allowing for precise documentation of non-manual features and limb placements within a signed utterance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CE1C |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Large Type Piece Upper Terminal |
| 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 0xB8 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD833 0xDE1C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001CE1C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud833\ude1c |
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 |