What 𝤎 means
The hand brushes across a surface, then moves away.
Think of a hand passing across the other hand or a part of the body, briefly making contact as it goes. “Single” means one brushing contact. Rubbing is different: the hand stays in contact with the surface.
SignWriting records how signs are performed rather than spelling out spoken-language words. Symbols show handshape, position, movement and other features. Their arrangement on the page reflects how those parts fit together in space. This mark supplies the kind of contact; surrounding symbols supply the handshape, location and movement direction.
The system can write different sign languages, which have their own vocabularies and grammar. If someone sends 𝤎 alone, you have a contact instruction without enough information to read a complete sign.
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Worth knowing
- SignWriting grew out of dance notation. Valerie Sutton began DanceWriting for ballet in 1966; in 1974, researchers in Copenhagen asked her to adapt her system to sign languages.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𝤎 show as a box or blank?
Your font may lack this character. A font or viewer supporting Sutton SignWriting can display it. Displaying the mark alone does not reconstruct a complete sign.
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How to type or find 𝤎
- Search it as
- SignWriting brush · brush contact · single brush · circle with dot · bullseye symbol · sign-language writing
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝤎\1D90ECodes and encoding1 code points
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