SignWriting Large Single Flick

It marks one large opening flick at a finger’s middle joint.

Place the mark beside the finger that opens or beside the spot where the movement happens. The notation distinguishes large from small flicks, and one flick from multiple or sequential flicks; those forms are not interchangeable.

Valerie Sutton developed SignWriting for writing sign languages in 1974, after working on movement notation, a way to record movement. The system was first handwritten, then adapted for computer editors and fonts; Unicode encoding in 2015 added a digital character for this mark. SignWriting can record different sign languages, but this glyph describes a movement, not a word.

How do I place 𝤛 in a SignWriting sign?

Place it with the handshape and the sign’s other components.

Placement indicates which fingers move or where in signing space the movement occurs. Alone, 𝤛 records one movement element; the handshape, location, and other marks complete the written sign.

To enter it, use a SignWriting editor or an input method that exposes the notation symbols, then position the mark in the sign. Historical SignWriter software used a learned keyboard layout because symbol entry and two-dimensional positioning were specialized.