U+1D856 "𝡖" Signwriting Hand-Oval Five Fingers Spread Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝡖
U+1D856 "𝡖" Signwriting Hand-Oval Five Fingers Spread is a symbol from the Sutton SignWriting script, a writing system designed to visually represent sign languages. This specific character depicts a hand with an oval palm shape and all five fingers spread apart, typically used to capture the handshape in signed communication. As part of the SignWriting block, it serves as a standardized digital tool for transcribing the precise configurations, movements, and orientations of hands in sign language, aiding in linguistic study, education, and documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D856 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Hand-Oval Five Fingers Spread |
| 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 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDC56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D856 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\udc56 |
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 |