U+1D905 "𝤅" Signwriting Touch Single Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝤅
U+1D905 "𝤅" Signwriting Touch Single is a specific symbol within the SignWriting script, which is used to visually represent the hand shapes, movements, and facial expressions of sign languages in written form. This particular character depicts a single touch contact, typically indicating that one part of the hand makes a brief, non‑sliding contact with another part of the signing body or the other hand. It belongs to the SignWriting hand‑shape subgroup and is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane as part of a larger system designed to capture the phonology of signed languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D905 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Touch Single |
| 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 0xA4 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDD05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D905 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\udd05 |
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 |