U+1DA3B "𝨻" Signwriting Mouth Closed Neutral Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝨻
U+1DA3B "𝨻" Signwriting Mouth Closed Neutral is a specific glyph within the SignWriting script, a comprehensive writing system used to represent the movements and expressions of sign languages. This character depicts a neutral mouth shape where the lips are closed and relaxed, with no tension or specific rounding or spreading. It serves as a building block for transcribing facial expressions in signed communication, indicating a default or resting state of the mouth that often accompanies certain hand signs or grammatical features. Unlike more expressive mouth symbols, this neutral version conveys a lack of specific mouth movement, such as for words where the mouth does not actively shape a sound or emotion.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DA3B |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Mouth Closed Neutral |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDE3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001DA3B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\ude3b |