U+1D86F "๐กฏ" Signwriting Hand-Cup Thumb Side Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
๐กฏ
U+1D86F "๐กฏ" Signwriting Hand-Cup Thumb Side is a symbol within the SignWriting script, a complete writing system designed to visually represent the movements, handshapes, and facial expressions of signed languages. This particular character depicts a specific hand shape where the fingers are curved together to form a cup while the thumb is extended out to the side, focusing on the orientation of the thumb relative to the cupped palm. It is used by sign language linguists, educators, and writers to precisely transcribe the physical configuration of a signer's hand, allowing for accurate notation of both the handshape and its spatial relationship in a sign.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D86F |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Hand-Cup 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDC6F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D86F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\udc6f |
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 |