U+1DA44 "𝩄" Signwriting Mouth Open Circle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝩄
U+1DA44 "𝩄" Signwriting Mouth Open Circle is a glyph within the SignWriting script, a writing system designed to visually represent the handshapes, movements, facial expressions, and body positions used in sign languages. Specifically, this character depicts a mouth forming an open circle shape, indicating a particular facial configuration that modifies the meaning of a signed word or phrase, such as signaling a mouth shape resembling the sound "oh" or "oo." It belongs to the Sutton SignWriting block of Unicode, which standardizes these symbols to enable digital representation and exchange of sign language writing across different platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DA44 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Mouth Open Circle |
| 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 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDE44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001DA44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\ude44 |