What 𝤏 means
The hand brushes a surface, leaves it, and repeats. “Brush” describes passing contact: the hand moves across a surface and off it. This differs from rubbing, where contact with the surface continues.
SignWriting records visible features of signing, including handshapes, movement and facial expressions. Its symbols are arranged spatially to form written signs. 𝤏 supplies the contact detail; the surrounding symbols show the handshape, location and other parts of the sign. It is not a complete sign on its own.
Valerie Sutton developed SignWriting in 1974 from her movement notation for a University of Copenhagen research project. She recorded hearing people's gestures from video so researchers could compare them with Danish Sign Language. The system developed into a way to write signed languages.
A technical writing symbol for signed languages; it describes contact, rather than a conversational tone.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why do I see a box instead of the symbol?
Your font or app may not support SignWriting. A font with SignWriting support is needed to display the character; arranging a complete written sign also requires suitable software.
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How to type or find 𝤏
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- repeated brush contact · SignWriting brush multiple · brush contact symbol · two bullseyes · two circles with dots
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝤏\1D90FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.