U+1DA38 "𝨸" Signwriting Air Suck Small Rotations Unicode Character

U+1DA38 "𝨸" Signwriting Air Suck Small Rotations is a symbol from the SignWriting script, a system designed to visually represent sign languages through written icons. This specific glyph indicates a small, rotating sucking motion of air, such as the movements made in certain signed words or expressions that involve airflow, like whistling or blowing. It belongs to a group of air suction symbols in SignWriting, where the rotation direction and size modifiers (here, "small") help specify the precise articulation for transcription. Unlike regular alphabetic characters, this sign is used primarily by linguists, educators, and deaf communities to notate signed language phonetics and choreography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1DA38
Version Added	8.0
Name	Signwriting Air Suck Small Rotations
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 0xA8 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD836 0xDE38
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001DA38
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud836\ude38

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