U+1D851 "𝡑" Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel Five Fingers Spread Bent Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𝡑

U+1D851 "𝡑" Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel Five Fingers Spread Bent is a specialized symbol from the SignWriting script, an international notation system for writing sign languages. This character depicts a hand with the palm facing forward and flat, the fingers spread apart, and the wrist bent at the heel, creating a distinct shape used to represent a specific sign language gesture. It belongs to the Sutton SignWriting block of Unicode, which encodes thousands of such hand shapes, movements, and facial expressions to allow for precise digital documentation and exchange of signed languages. This particular sign is often employed to illustrate a position where the hand is open and curved backward from the wrist, useful for describing certain verbs or descriptors in various sign languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+1D851
Version Added 8.0
Name Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel Five Fingers Spread 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 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD836 0xDC51
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001D851
C/C++/Java Escape \ud836\udc51

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