What 𝤇 means
It marks in-between contact within a signed gesture. The star-shaped center represents touch, and the bars distinguish the “between” form. SignWriting records visible features of signing—hand shapes, facial expressions, body positions and movements—rather than spelling out spoken words. This character is one component of that writing, not a complete sign by itself.
How do you read it with the other symbols?
Read the contact mark together with the surrounding body symbols. Their shapes and spatial arrangement identify what touches where, including contact involving body parts other than fingers. A written sign uses a two-dimensional layout, like a small diagram. The character 𝤇 alone does not store that arrangement; composing a complete sign requires a way to position its components.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Worth knowing
- SignWriting grew from Valerie Sutton’s DanceWriting, begun for ballet in 1966. The system was adapted for signed-language research in 1974.
- Deaf signers helped shape SignWriting into a spatial writing system usable for different signed languages. It is a way to write those languages, not a universal signed language.
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
- touch between · in-between contact · SignWriting contact symbol · asterisk between bars · star between vertical lines
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝤇\1D907Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.