SignWriting Location on Limbs and Digits

Use SignWriting software with a compatible font.

A SignWriting editor, symbol picker, or dedicated keyboard can insert 𝪆. This character is one building block; a complete sign also needs two-dimensional positioning.

If it appears as an empty box or a different outline, the viewing font may lack SignWriting support. A SignWriting font or SVG renderer can display the glyph.

What does 𝪆 mean?

It marks a detailed location on a limb or digit.

SignWriting writes signed languages with symbols arranged in two dimensions. This glyph is a detailed-location annotation, used outside the sign cluster to specify a place more precisely; it does not stand for a sign, number, or body-part word.

Valerie Sutton created DanceWriting in 1966 to record ballet movement. In 1974, researchers at the University of Copenhagen asked her to adapt it for signs and gestures recorded on video. SignWriting describes physical formations rather than one language’s vocabulary, so it can serve different signed languages; Deaf writers, publishers, and researchers shaped its conventions. This marker also appears in ordered SignSpellings—sequences of symbols that can be sorted—for dictionary sorting, animation, translation between notation systems, and linguistic analysis. Ordinary SignWriting can show location without it.