SignWriting Cheeks Sucked

It marks both cheeks drawn inward in a written sign. In SignWriting, this is a facial configuration, not a mood or reaction. The International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA) groups it with cheek states such as puffed, neutral, and tense; a separate symbol records air moving inward.

SignWriting lays out a sign in two dimensions with hand, movement, head, face, and body symbols. The cheek mark's position is read from the signer's point of view, and its precise grammatical role comes from the full sign. The mark does not stand for a complete signed word.

How do I use 𝨬 in a written sign?

Use it as part of a SignWriting face, not as a standalone sign. Unicode defines facial symbols as combining sequences: a cheek mark follows the head base. A font may draw the symbols, but a full SignWriting sign also needs two-dimensional layout to place them.

Valerie Sutton developed the wider movement-writing system in 1974. From 1975–1980, it shifted from DanceWriting toward SignWriting. A 1977 workshop introduced SignWriting to U.S. sign-language researchers and Deaf adults. From 1979, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), a U.S. college, used it in technical-sign manuals. The aim was practical: record signed forms, including facial behavior, without translating them into spoken-language words. SignWriting uses cheek marks descriptively across sign languages; the surrounding sign determines their grammatical role.