U+1D8A5 "𝢥" Signwriting Hand-Circle Index Middle Little Unicode Character

U+1D8A5 "𝢥" Signwriting Hand-Circle Index Middle Little is a symbol from the Sutton SignWriting notation system, designed to represent specific handshapes used in sign languages, such as American Sign Language. In this particular symbol, the index, middle, and little fingers are extended and together form a circle or ring shape, while the thumb and ring finger are typically folded or otherwise positioned, conveying a specific manual configuration that is part of the visual vocabulary for writing signed languages. This character falls under the Sutton SignWriting block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of such symbols to support the accurate notation of hand movements, facial expressions, and other non-manual components essential to sign language documentation and analysis.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D8A5
Version Added	8.0
Name	Signwriting Hand-Circle Index Middle Little
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 0xA2 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD836 0xDCA5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D8A5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud836\udca5

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