SignWriting Tense Cheeks Middle

It marks tense cheek action at the middle face position. The high, middle, and low names distinguish where the same cheek feature sits on the face.

In SignWriting, a system for writing signed languages with symbols arranged visually, this facial expression mark preserves one detail of a sign. It does not name an emotion on its own.

DanceWriting grew into a way to write signed languages

Valerie Sutton created DanceWriting in 1966 to record ballet movement. In 1974, researchers at the University of Copenhagen asked her to adapt it for signers and gestures on video; that work led to SignWriting.

In the early 1980s, a newsletter written by Deaf SignWriting users and shared internationally helped move the system toward general-purpose writing. Books, dictionaries, education, and software later extended its uses.

The International SignWriting Alphabet manual groups this mark with marks for cheeks, ears, nose, and breath.

How do I type SignWriting tense cheeks middle?

Choose it in a SignWriting editor that supports full layout. Its symbol chooser provides a practical way to enter the facial mark without a dedicated keyboard key.

This is a nonspacing mark: it is designed to attach within a sequence rather than sit like an ordinary letter. A SignWriting-capable font and renderer are needed to show it in the intended place, because a plain character string alone does not carry the full sign's two-dimensional arrangement.