U+1D846 "𝡆" Signwriting Hand-Flat Four Fingers Hinged Unicode Character

U+1D846 "𝡆" Signwriting Hand-Flat Four Fingers Hinged is a symbol within the SignWriting script, a writing system designed to represent the physical movements and handshapes of sign languages. This specific character depicts a hand held flat with four fingers extended and hinged, meaning the hand is oriented so the fingers bend or fold at the knuckles relative to the palm, typically indicating a specific hand posture used in various signed languages. It falls within the Sutton SignWriting block of Unicode, which encodes thousands of such iconic glyphs that combine hand shapes, locations, movements, and facial expressions to notate the visual-gestural nature of sign language communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D846
Version Added	8.0
Name	Signwriting Hand-Flat Four Fingers Hinged
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 0xA1 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD836 0xDC46
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D846
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud836\udc46

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