U+1D84E "𝡎" Signwriting Hand-Flat Five Fingers Spread Four Bent Unicode Character

U+1D84E "𝡎" Signwriting Hand-Flat Five Fingers Spread Four Bent is a specific symbol from the SignWriting script, a writing system designed to notate the handshapes, movements, and facial expressions of signed languages. This particular character represents a hand configuration where the palm faces the viewer, the entire hand is held flat, and all five fingers are spread apart while four of those fingers are bent at the knuckles, leaving only one finger extended or straightened. It is used by writers and linguists to transcribe the precise manual gestures found in various sign languages around the world, allowing for detailed documentation and preservation of signed communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D84E
Version Added	8.0
Name	Signwriting Hand-Flat Five Fingers Spread Four Bent
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 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD836 0xDC4E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D84E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud836\udc4e

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