SIGNWRITING MOUTH SMILE OPEN character

SIGNWRITING MOUTH SMILE OPEN
U+1DA40
121408
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Mn (Nonspacing Mark)
NSM (Nonspacing Mark)
N
0
Sutton SignWriting
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
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SIGNWRITING MOUTH SMILE OPEN is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SIGNWRITING MOUTH SMILE OPEN is Nonspacing Mark (Weak). It belongs to the non-spacing marks, which take on the directionality of the characters to which they attach..

The Nonspacing Mark (NSM) bidi class is assigned to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but modify the preceding base character. NSMs are neutral in directionality but inherit the directionality of the base character they are attached to. They are essential for the accurate representation of characters with diacritics in bidirectional text.

Nonspacing Mark (Mn) refers to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but instead combine with a preceding base character to modify its sound or meaning. Nonspacing marks are essential in many scripts, including Latin, Arabic, and Devanagari, for accurate representation of text.

This character belongs to the Sutton SignWriting block. The Sutton SignWriting block contains characters used in the SignWriting system, a writing system for sign languages that was developed by Valerie Sutton in the 1970s. SignWriting uses visual symbols to represent the movements and expressions of sign language, allowing it to be written and read just like spoken languages. This block includes all the symbols needed to write in SignWriting, providing a valuable tool for the documentation, education, and preservation of sign languages around the world..