U+16FF6 "𖿶" Yangqin Sign Slow Two Beats Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖿶
U+16FF6 "𖿶" Yangqin Sign Slow Two Beats is a musical notation symbol specifically used in the context of Chinese traditional music, indicating that the player of the yangqin, a hammered dulcimer, should perform two beats at a slower tempo. This character belongs to the Unicode block designated for Chinese music notation, which standardizes a range of symbols to preserve and encode the traditional methods of writing instrumental scores. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard helps ensure that digital representations of these ancient and culturally significant musical instructions remain accessible and interoperable across modern text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16FF6 |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Yangqin Sign Slow Two Beats |
| Block | Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖿶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖿶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xBF 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDFF6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016FF6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udff6 |