U+1DA48 "𝩈" Signwriting Mouth Open Oval Wrinkled Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝩈
U+1DA48 "𝩈" Signwriting Mouth Open Oval Wrinkled is a specific glyph within the SignWriting script, a writing system developed by Valerie Sutton to visually represent the movements, handshapes, and facial expressions used in sign languages. This particular symbol depicts a mouth configuration that is open in an oval shape, combined with wrinkles around the lips, often used to indicate a particular facial expression or mouth movement that conveys meaning or phonetic detail in signed communication. It forms part of a larger set of SignWriting characters that allow for precise transcription of the visual and manual components of sign languages, expanding the Unicode Standard’s support for non-written linguistic systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DA48 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Signwriting Mouth Open Oval Wrinkled |
| 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 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD836 0xDE48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001DA48 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud836\ude48 |