U+1D85E "𝡞" Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel Thumb Side Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝡞
U+1D85E "𝡞" Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel Thumb Side is a symbol from the SignWriting script, a writing system designed to visually represent sign languages. This specific character depicts a hand facing the viewer with the palm flat, the heel of the hand as the central focus, and the thumb extended to the side. It functions as a phoneme or grapheme within SignWriting, allowing writers to precisely transcribe the handshape and orientation used in signed communication. Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital representation and exchange of this linguistic notation across platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D85E |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Hand-Flat Heel Thumb Side |
| 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDC5E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D85E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\udc5e |
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 |