U+1DA68 "𝩨" Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Jaw Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𝩨

U+1DA68 "𝩨" Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Jaw is a glyph used within the SignWriting script to indicate a specific movement of the jaw in signed languages. It belongs to the SignWriting Movement-Wallplane subset, which represents motions that occur parallel to a vertical wall plane, such as forward or backward movements of the head or jaw. This particular character depicts the jaw moving in a non-rotational, linear fashion along that frontal plane, allowing signers to transcribe subtle facial gestures that are linguistically significant for conveying grammatical or emotive information. Users of the SignWriting system employ this symbol to describe the physical articulation of signs involving the lower jaw, enabling precise transcription of signed languages in written form.

General Properties

Code Point U+1DA68
Version Added 8.0
Name Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Jaw
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 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD836 0xDE68
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001DA68
C/C++/Java Escape \ud836\ude68

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script SignWriting
Script Extensions SignWriting
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend