U+1DA40 "𝩀" Signwriting Mouth Smile Open Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝩀
U+1DA40 "𝩀" Signwriting Mouth Smile Open is part of the SignWriting script, a notation system designed to visually represent the movements, handshapes, and facial expressions used in sign languages. This specific glyph depicts an open mouth with a smile, conveying a positive or happy facial expression in signed communication, where non manual markers like mouth shapes can play a grammatical or affective role. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for consistent digital representation of SignWriting in plain text, facilitating the documentation and sharing of sign languages across platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DA40 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Mouth Smile Open |
| 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 0xA9 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDE40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001DA40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\ude40 |