U+1DA3D "𝨽" Signwriting Mouth Closed Contact Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝨽
U+1DA3D "𝨽" Signwriting Mouth Closed Contact is a symbol used within the SignWriting script, a writing system designed to represent the physical movements, facial expressions, and handshapes of sign languages. This specific character depicts the mouth closed with the lips making contact, indicating that the signer's mouth is firmly shut, often used to convey a particular phonetic or grammatical feature in signed communication. It belongs to the Sutton SignWriting block in Unicode, which was added to standardize the digital representation of sign language notation, allowing for more precise documentation and analysis of visual linguistic expressions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DA3D |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Mouth Closed 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 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDE3D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001DA3D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\ude3d |