U+1D859 "𝡙" Signwriting Hand-Flat Five Fingers Spread Hinged No Thumb Unicode Character

U+1D859 "𝡙" Signwriting Hand-Flat Five Fingers Spread Hinged No Thumb is part of the Sutton SignWriting script, a system designed to visually represent the physical movements and handshapes of sign languages in written form. This specific character describes a hand configuration where the palm is oriented flat, four fingers are extended and spread apart, and the thumb is absent or folded inward, while the symbol "hinged" indicates a joint bend or wrist rotation. It belongs to a comprehensive set of over 40,000 sign language symbols encoded in the Unicode standard, allowing for precise transcription and digital exchange of sign language gestures across platforms and applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D859
Version Added	8.0
Name	Signwriting Hand-Flat Five Fingers Spread Hinged No Thumb
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 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD836 0xDC59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D859
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud836\udc59

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