What 𝧿 means
The SignWriting head base starts a larger head-and-face sequence.
The system grew from Valerie Sutton's own dance notation, begun in 1966 and influenced by Friedrich Albert Zorn's stick-figure dance notation of the 1880s. In 1974, a Copenhagen research project needed a way to record gestures and compare hearing people's gestures with the signs used by Deaf people using Danish Sign Language. SignWriting became a writing system used across many sign languages.
How do other symbols change it?
Its marks and position shape the reading.
Eye, mouth, cheek, and head-movement marks combine with the base to show facial expressions or actions. A hand, arrow, or contact mark belongs to the same sign when its position in the two-dimensional layout connects it to the head.
How do I type 𝧿?
Use a SignWriting editor or a Unicode input method that supports it.
To write a sign, insert the head base, add its face or movement marks, and arrange the symbols spatially; a suitable editor must retain that layout.
In the documented SignWriter keyboard, related top-of-head symbols are assigned to keys 7 and 9. That mapping applies to the program, not to text entry in general.
Technical and specialist: this head base belongs inside a SignWriting sequence.
𝧿 alone is not a full sign; the surrounding sequence supplies the reading.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA SignWriting base; by itself, it does not identify a specific sign-language word.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
3Questions people ask
1Why can the top of the head look open?
A forehead mark can overlap the top of the base, so an open top is intentional. A Unicode feedback record from 2020 noted that two distinct sequences looked identical in the Noto font.
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How to type or find 𝧿
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- ISWA · SWU · SignWriting · head base · SignWriter keyboard · SignWriting font
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝧿\1D9FFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.