SignWriting Neutral Forehead

It marks a neutral forehead as one part of a written sign.

SignWriting is a way to write signed languages. This facial mark records forehead information, while other symbols and their two-dimensional placement show the hands, movement, and other facial details. The mark does not stand for a universal spoken word or a mood by itself.

SignWriting grew from Sutton Movement Writing, a system for recording body movement. In 1974, a University of Copenhagen research project asked Valerie Sutton to write Danish signing. The forehead group includes neutral, contact, and wrinkled marks; this one records a forehead detail, not one universal spoken word.

Is SignWriting Forehead Neutral an emoji?

No. It is a SignWriting facial mark.

When someone sends it alone, read it as a notation fragment, not as a neutral-mood reaction. A reader who knows SignWriting can recognize the forehead detail; without that context, it may look like an obscure character.

In a complete SignWriting sign, marks combine with a head base and sit in a two-dimensional layout. Plain text may lose that arrangement, so the sequence can lose its intended structure.

How do I type or render this mark?

Use a SignWriting-aware input method and font.

A standard keyboard has no everyday key for this mark. A SignWriting-aware on-screen keyboard can build its sequence.

If it appears blank or out of place, the font or layout may not support SignWriting. That display problem does not give the mark a new meaning.