U+1D855 "𝡕" Signwriting Hand-Hinge Five Fingers Spread Open Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝡕
U+1D855 "𝡕" Signwriting Hand-Hinge Five Fingers Spread Open is a symbol from the SignWriting script, a system designed to visually represent the physical movements and handshapes of sign languages. This specific character depicts a hand with all five fingers extended and spread apart, connected to a hinge icon that indicates the orientation of the hand, typically with the palm facing the viewer. It is used as a building block in written sign language notation to capture a common hand configuration found in many signed languages, allowing for precise documentation and analysis of signing gestures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D855 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Hand-Hinge Five Fingers Spread Open |
| 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 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDC55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D855 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\udc55 |
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 |