What 𝤍 means
It marks forceful contact between two parts.
In a written SignWriting sign, 𝤍 marks a hand making forceful contact in the space between two body parts. The surrounding handshape, location, and movement symbols show which parts meet and what happens next.
SignWriting grew from DanceWriting, a system for recording movement: that work began in 1966, and SignWriting was developed in 1974 to write signed languages. It was designed to write and preserve different signed languages with one notation. A Spanish Sign Language example uses strike to intensify contact, so read the surrounding symbols to see its precise role.
Why does it look incomplete by itself?
It is one contact component, not a complete sign.
SignWriting places visual symbols in a two-dimensional layout. A bare 𝤍 gives the contact action but not the handshape, body location, direction, or rest of the sign.
It is a font-rendered notation character, so its appearance depends on SignWriting font support. A SignWriting editor can arrange the full sign; plain text with 𝤍 alone cannot preserve that two-dimensional layout.
Technical SignWriting notation; its reading depends on the surrounding hand and body symbols.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIt marks forceful contact in the space between those parts.
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Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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How to type or find 𝤍
- Search it as
- SignWriting · SW · strike between · contact mark · forceful contact · strike symbol · Sutton SignWriting · SignWriting strike
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝤍\1D90DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.