U+1D84F "𝡏" Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel Five Fingers Spread Four Bent Unicode Character

U+1D84F "𝡏" Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel Five Fingers Spread Four Bent is a component of the SignWriting script, a visual notation system designed to represent the handshapes, movements, and facial expressions of sign languages. This specific symbol depicts a left or right hand with the palm facing the viewer, the heel (base of the hand) oriented downward, and all five fingers spread apart, with four of those fingers bent at the joints while the thumb remains straight and extended. It is used by sign language writers and linguists to accurately record and transcribe the manual parameters of signs, contributing to the documentation and study of sign languages around the world.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D84F
Version Added	8.0
Name	Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel 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 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD836 0xDC4F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D84F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud836\udc4f

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