What 𝤆 means
Read it as repeated light touching.
SignWriting records how a sign is made: hand shapes, positions, movements and facial expressions. The symbols are arranged in space to represent the sign. 𝤆 adds the contact detail, sometimes called double touch; the surrounding symbols show which parts touch and where.
The two star shapes belong to a single character. Typing two ordinary asterisks does not produce this SignWriting character. Nor does inserting 𝤆 alone create a complete written sign: the other symbols and their placement still matter.
To display it, you need a font that supports Sutton SignWriting. A missing-character box can mean that your font cannot draw it. Displaying this individual mark and arranging a whole sign are separate tasks.
A component of sign-language writing, with a specific physical meaning.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Worth knowing
- Valerie Sutton developed SignWriting in 1974 through work with researchers in Copenhagen. It grew from her DanceWriting system, begun in 1966 to record body movement.
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
- double touch · repeated contact · two asterisks · double star symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝤆\1D906Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.