U+1CE1D "" Large Type Piece Upper Left Crotch Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1CE1D "" Large Type Piece Upper Left Crotch is a glyph found in the Sutton SignWriting block, which is used to represent specific handshapes, movements, or spatial positions in the SignWriting script for writing signed languages. This particular character denotes the upper left crotch area of a large type piece, indicating a precise location in the two-dimensional signing space, where the crotch refers to the angle or junction formed by the thumb and index finger. It is part of a systematic notation that captures the visual and spatial grammar of sign languages, enabling detailed transcription of hand configurations and orientations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CE1D |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Large Type Piece Upper Left Crotch |
| 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 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD833 0xDE1D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001CE1D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud833\ude1d |
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 |