U+1D85C "𝡜" Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝡜
U+1D85C "𝡜" Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel is a specific glyph within the SignWriting script, a system designed to visually represent the physical movements and handshapes of sign languages. This particular symbol depicts a hand oriented with the palm facing down, fingers extended and touching, and the emphasis on the heel of the hand as a contact point or reference area. It is used by writers to indicate that the heel of the hand makes contact with another location on the body or in space during a sign, providing a precise visual cue for the hand's position and action.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D85C |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel |
| 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDC5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D85C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\udc5c |
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 |