SignWriting Medium Wall-Plane Loop

It marks a loop that travels parallel to an imagined front wall. Here, the wall is an imaginary plane in front of the signer; this is the medium form among the small, medium, and large wall-plane loops. Movement symbols describe how the hands or other body parts travel during a sign. This glyph records a movement path, not a complete sign-language sign.

SignWriting grew from DanceWriting, Valerie Sutton's notation for body movement. Her first dance-notation book appeared as Sutton Movement Shorthand in 1973. In 1974, researchers in Copenhagen asked Sutton to adapt it to record sign-language movement from video; the early detailed style transcribed signs for research. Two Deaf staff members pushed for expressive writing in 1984: the writer should record signs from their own point of view. From 1986 to 1996, layouts evolved into compact stacks that grouped a sign's symbols. The project announced vertical writing in 1997; a 1998 history records some groups still using left-to-right layouts.

Why does the complete sign need a layout?

SignWriting arranges its pieces in two dimensions. The placement of basic symbols helps form each written sign, roughly the size of a word. Unicode encodes the symbols; a higher-level layout arranges them in space. 𝦖 contributes a movement path within that arrangement, alongside the sign's other components.

How do I type 𝦖?

Use a SignWriting editor or a Unicode-aware input method. A SignWriting editor can accept keyboard or mouse input. Entering a symbol and arranging it in the sign's two-dimensional cluster are separate steps.

A Unicode-aware input method can enter U+1D996 as a code point, though keystrokes depend on the software. If the character looks missing or wrong, check whether the active font supports Sutton SignWriting; text entry and glyph display are separate.