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𝤸

signwriting movement-wallplane bend small

SignWriting small wall-plane bend

𝤸 marks a small bending movement in SignWriting, a system for writing signed languages. The movement lies in an imaginary upright plane in front of the signer, like a wall. This mark combines with other symbols to write a sign; it does not stand for a whole word on its own.

Text symbol

What 𝤸 means

It shows a bent movement path in the vertical wall plane.

The glyph looks like an arrow with two parallel strokes bending together. Imagine tracing a path on an upright sheet of glass in front of you: that is the “wall plane.” No actual wall is needed. “Small” distinguishes this member of the small, medium, and large bend set.

SignWriting places handshape, movement, location, and facial-expression symbols together in a two-dimensional arrangement. You read the whole arrangement as a sign in a particular signed language. SignWriting is a writing system, not a signed language itself, and this movement mark has no single English-word translation.

How did SignWriting begin?

It grew out of a way to write dance movements.

Valerie Sutton developed DanceWriting in 1966 to record ballet steps. In 1974, researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark asked her to adapt her movement notation for signed languages. That work became SignWriting.

Specialist writing notation: read it as part of a written sign, rather than as a standalone message.

Part of the collection

𝠀

Sutton SignWriting

Don't confuse it with

𝤹

Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Bend Medium

The medium wall-plane bend; 𝤸 is the small form.

𝤺

Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Bend Large

The large wall-plane bend; 𝤸 is the small form.

𝥳

Signwriting Movement-Floorplane Bend

The floor-plane bend: its movement plane is parallel to the floor, rather than an upright wall.

Questions people ask

Why does 𝤸 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Sutton SignWriting block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.

How to type or find 𝤸

Search it as: SignWriting · small wall-plane bend · SignWriting movement symbol · bent double arrow · bent double-line arrow · sign language writing · Sutton SignWriting
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 1D938, then AltX to get 𝤸.

Windows

⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).

macOS

⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “signwriting movement-wallplane bend small”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1d938, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𝤸

CSS

\1D938

Writing a sign

Use a SignWriting editor to select the movement symbol and position it with the other components. The character alone does not encode that arrangement.

Missing symbol

A font supporting Sutton SignWriting is needed to display 𝤸; otherwise you may see a blank or a missing-character box.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𝤸

HTML hex

𝤸

CSS content

content: "\1D938";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9D%A4%B8

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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