U+1D98C "𝦌" Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Curve Half-Circle Small Unicode Character

U+1D98C "𝦌" Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Curve Half-Circle Small is a symbol from the Sutton SignWriting script, which is designed to visually represent the movements and handshapes of signed languages in written form. This specific glyph denotes a small, half circle shaped movement that occurs against the wallplane, which is the vertical plane parallel to the signer’s body, and it appears in the SignWriting block of the Unicode standard. Its purpose is to enable precise transcription of nuanced hand and arm motions, such as a slight arc or curve, that are fundamental to accurately documenting the physical grammar of sign languages like American Sign Language through a standardized, non phonetic script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D98C
Version Added	8.0
Name	Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Curve Half-Circle Small
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 0xA6 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD836 0xDD8C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D98C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud836\udd8c

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