ISWA 2010 International SignWriting Alphabet HTML Reference

Writing symbols

Used in 2-dimensional clusters to write signs.

Category 5: Body

Torso movement, shoulders, hips, and the limbs are used in Sign Languages as a part of grammar, especially when describing conversations between people, called Role Shifting, or making spatial comparisons between items on the left and items on the right.

SymbolGroup Table

Symbol	SymbolGroup	Name	Symbol ID	Symbol Key	Unicode PUA	UTF-8
	SymbolGroup_27	Trunk	05-01	S36d	U+FDA9D	󽪝

BaseSymbol Table

Symbol	BaseSymbol	Name	Symbol ID	Symbol Key	Unicode PUA	UTF-8	Valid Fills	Valid Rotations
	BaseSymbol_622	Shoulder Hip Spine	05-01-001-01	S36d	U+FDA9D	󽪝	1 - 3	1 - 4
	BaseSymbol_623	Shoulder Hip Positions	05-01-002-01	S36e	U+FDA9E	󽪞	1 - 5	1 - 6
	BaseSymbol_624	Shoulder Hip Move Wall Plane	05-01-003-01	S36f	U+FDA9F	󽪟	1 - 6	1 - 16
	BaseSymbol_625	Shoulder Hip Move Floor Plane	05-01-004-01	S370	U+FDAA0	󽪠	1 - 6	1 - 16
	BaseSymbol_626	Shoulder Tilts (from Waist)	05-01-005-01	S371	U+FDAA1	󽪡	1 - 6	1 - 16
	BaseSymbol_627	Torso Straight Stretch Wall	05-01-006-01	S372	U+FDAA2	󽪢	1 - 4	1 - 4
	BaseSymbol_628	Torso Curved Bend Wall	05-01-007-01	S373	U+FDAA3	󽪣	1 - 4	1 - 4
	BaseSymbol_629	Torso Twist Floor Plane	05-01-008-01	S374	U+FDAA4	󽪤	1 - 4	1 - 4
	BaseSymbol_630	Upper Body Tilts (from Hip Joints)	05-01-009-01	S375	U+FDAA5	󽪥	1 - 6	1 - 8