U+1D83B "𝠻" Signwriting Hand-Fist Index Thumb Angled in Middle Up Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝠻
U+1D83B "𝠻" Signwriting Hand-Fist Index Thumb Angled in Middle Up is a specific glyph within the SignWriting script, a system designed to visually represent sign languages in written form. This character depicts a hand configuration where the fingers form a fist, but with the index finger and thumb extended and angled upward from the middle of the hand, suggesting a precise pointing or pinching gesture often used in signing. It is encoded in the Sutton SignWriting block of the Unicode Standard, allowing it to be used digitally for accurately transcribing the nuances of sign language movements and finger positions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D83B |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Hand-Fist Index Thumb Angled in Middle Up |
| Block | Sutton SignWriting |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝠻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝠻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0xA0 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDC3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D83B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\udc3b |
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 | SignWriting |
| Script Extensions | SignWriting |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |