ISWA 2010

International SignWriting Alphabet

HTML Reference

Writing symbols

Used in 2-dimensional clusters to write signs.

Category 2: Movement

Contact symbols, small finger movements, straight arrows, curved arrows and circles are placed into 10 groups based on planes: The Front Wall Plane includes movement that is "parallel to the front wall" and the Floor Plane includes movement that is "parallel to the floor".

SymbolGroup Table

SymbolSymbolGroupNameSymbol IDSymbol KeyUnicode PUAUTF-8
SymbolGroup_19Curves Parallel Floor Plane02-09S2d5U+FDA05󽨅



BaseSymbol Table

SymbolBaseSymbolNameSymbol IDSymbol KeyUnicode PUAUTF-8Valid FillsValid Rotations
BaseSymbol_470Curve Floor Plane Small02-09-001-01S2d5U+FDA05󽨅1 - 41 - 16
BaseSymbol_471Curve Floor Plane Medium 102-09-001-02S2d6U+FDA06󽨆1 - 41 - 16
BaseSymbol_472Curve Floor Plane Medium 202-09-001-03S2d7U+FDA07󽨇1 - 41 - 16
BaseSymbol_473Curve Floor Plane Large02-09-001-04S2d8U+FDA08󽨈1 - 41 - 16
BaseSymbol_474Curve Floor Plane Combined02-09-001-05S2d9U+FDA09󽨉1 - 41 - 16
BaseSymbol_475Hump Floor Plane Small02-09-002-01S2daU+FDA0A󽨊1 - 41 - 16
BaseSymbol_476Loop Floor Plane Small02-09-003-01S2dbU+FDA0B󽨋1 - 41 - 16
BaseSymbol_477Wave Floor Plane Snake02-09-004-01S2dcU+FDA0C󽨌1 - 41 - 16
BaseSymbol_478Wave Floor Plane Small02-09-004-02S2ddU+FDA0D󽨍1 - 41 - 16
BaseSymbol_479Wave Floor Plane Large02-09-004-03S2deU+FDA0E󽨎1 - 41 - 16
BaseSymbol_480Rotation Single Floor Plane02-09-005-01S2dfU+FDA0F󽨏1 - 61 - 16
BaseSymbol_481Rotation Double Floor Plane02-09-006-01S2e0U+FDA10󽨐1 - 61 - 16
BaseSymbol_482Rotation Alternating Floor Plane02-09-007-01S2e1U+FDA11󽨑1 - 61 - 16
BaseSymbol_483Shaking Parallel Floor02-09-008-01S2e2U+FDA12󽨒1 - 51 - 16



ISWA 2010 symbols
designed by Valerie Sutton

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Hand photos by Adam Frost
ISWA 2010 HTML Reference
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Stephen E Slevinski Jr.

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January 12th, 2012