What 𝤗 means
It marks one small closing at a finger’s middle joint.
“Small” distinguishes a smaller movement from a larger squeeze; “single” means the movement happens once.
Place it beside the relevant finger in the full sign. SignWriting uses a two-dimensional layout, with separate marks for handshape, orientation, location, and other movements; this character supplies only one part.
SignWriting began as movement transcription
SignWriting began in Denmark in 1974. Valerie Sutton adapted DanceWriting, her earlier system for recording dance movement, for a University of Copenhagen research project that recorded gestures and Danish Sign Language.
From 1981 to 1984, the SignWriter Newspaper carried writing by Deaf signers in American Sign Language and Danish Sign Language. This took SignWriting beyond its original research setting.
The system later spread into dictionaries, classrooms, and software as Deaf signers wrote their own languages. Its movement notation can be reused across signed languages, but a word’s meaning comes from the full sign and the language being written.
How do I place it in a SignWriting sign?
Place it by the joint for one small closing.
In a SignWriting editor, choose the small single squeeze from the finger-movement symbols and position it next to the joint it describes.
Technical notation for recording finger movement inside a written sign.
On its own, it cannot tell a reader which sign you mean.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does it show as a box or on its own?
A box usually means the font cannot draw this character. An isolated mark may be only one part of a SignWriting layout; a complete sign also needs the other symbols and their positions.
How to type 𝤗
𝤗\1D917Codes and encoding1 code points
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