U+1D8F9 "𝣹" Signwriting Hand-Fist Thumb Side Bent Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝣹
U+1D8F9 "𝣹" Signwriting Hand-Fist Thumb Side Bent is a specific glyph within the SignWriting script, which is a writing system designed to visually represent the movements, handshapes, and facial expressions of sign languages. This particular character depicts a hand formed into a fist with the thumb extending to the side and slightly bent, often used to convey a specific sign language phoneme or gesture. It belongs to the Sutton SignWriting block, used by linguists, educators, and deaf communities for notating sign languages in a standardized way, allowing for precise documentation of hand orientation and configuration.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D8F9 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Hand-Fist Thumb Side Bent |
| 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 0xA3 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDCF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D8F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\udcf9 |
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 |