What 𝧷 means
It tells the reader a sign's movement is quick. Sutton SignWriting writes sign languages visually: small symbols for the handshape, the face, where the hands touch the body and how they move are arranged into a little picture of each sign. Valerie Sutton built it out of DanceWriting, her 1966 notation for ballet; in 1974 researchers in Copenhagen asked her to adapt it for recording signers on video, and Deaf writers later made it their own.
How a sign moves is part of the sign, so SignWriting has a small family of “dynamics” marks for the manner of movement: 𝧷 for fast, with siblings for slow, tense, relaxed, simultaneous, alternating, every other time and gradual. A writer places the fast mark beside the movement arrows it describes.
Unicode stores each symbol as a character, but arranging symbols into the two-dimensional layout of a sign is left to SignWriting editors and fonts. Shown by itself in ordinary text, 𝧷 is just a bare angle.
Someone sent 𝧷 on its own — what does it mean?
Most likely nothing in SignWriting terms; ask the sender. One dynamics mark without a hand, face or movement says only “fast” about nothing. If the sender is not writing sign language, they probably chose it for its sharp angle look, as decoration or a stylised letter, or pasted it by accident.
Specialist notation: precise inside a written sign, meaningless on its own.
Don't read it as “hurry up” or as the math angle sign.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsThe movement is done quickly.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
2Is 𝧷 the angle symbol?
No. The angle sign used in geometry is . 𝧷 only looks similar; it belongs to Sutton SignWriting and math software and spellcheck treat them as different characters.
Why do I see an empty box instead?
Your font lacks the Sutton SignWriting block. Many phones and computers have no font for it, so the character shows as a box or question mark.
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How to type or find 𝧷
- Also called
- SignWriting fast mark · fast dynamic
- Search it as
- fast movement symbol · SignWriting fast · Sutton SignWriting · sign language writing symbol · angle shaped symbol · bold angle
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝧷\1D9F7Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.