What 𝦕 means
A small loop moving parallel to the signer’s front-facing plane. In SignWriting, the “wall plane” is an imaginary plane in front of the signer. This symbol gives the movement’s path and size; handshape, location, orientation, and nearby symbols supply the rest.
The plane changes which circular movement is being recorded. A front-wall circle is like washing a window; a floor-plane circle is like wiping a table. SignWriting records different signed languages, so this path has no one-to-one English translation.
The system began with DanceWriting in 1974, when Valerie Sutton created a way to write dance movement on paper. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen then asked for a way to record signed-language movement, leading to SignWriting. Both belong to the wider Sutton Movement Writing family.
Specialized notation: this marks movement inside a written sign.
Alone, it does not express a complete sign.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𝦕 look blank?
It can. Without a font that includes Sutton SignWriting glyphs, software may show a missing-glyph box. A SignWriting-aware font or renderer can display it.
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𝦖Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Loop Medium
𝦒Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Hump Small
𝧛Signwriting Movement-Floorplane Loop Small
𝦓Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Hump Medium
𝦔Signwriting Movement-Wallplane Hump Large
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- Also called
- wall-plane loop · loop wall plane
- Search it as
- loop · circle · wall plane · SignWriting · movement · Sutton
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝦕\1D995Codes and encoding1 code points
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