U+1DA12 "𝨒" Signwriting Forehead Contact Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝨒
U+1DA12 "𝨒" Signwriting Forehead Contact is a glyph used within the SignWriting script, which is a writing system designed to visually represent the movements, handshapes, and facial expressions of signed languages. This particular character depicts a symbolic marker for physical contact occurring at the forehead area, indicating that a hand or part of the signer's body touches the forehead during the production of a sign. It belongs to the SignWriting Head Contact group within the Unicode standard, where it serves as a precise orthographic component for transcribing the spatial and tactile details of sign language grammar.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DA12 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Forehead Contact |
| Block | Sutton SignWriting |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝨒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝨒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0xA8 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDE12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001DA12 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\ude12 |