U+1CF20 "𜼠" Znamenny Combining Mark Zelo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1CF20 "𜼠" Znamenny Combining Mark Zelo is a diacritical sign used in the Znamenny notation system, a traditional form of musical notation primarily employed in Russian Orthodox liturgical chant. This combining mark is placed above or beside a neume to indicate a specific melodic ornamentation or a heightened emotional emphasis in the chant, often translating to "very" or "greatly" in its musical instruction. As part of the Znamenny notation block added in Unicode 14.0, it helps preserve and digitize the nuanced performance practices of this ancient chant tradition, ensuring that subtle variations in pitch and expression can be accurately represented in modern digital text and scholarly work.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CF20 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Znamenny Combining Mark Zelo |
| Block | Znamenny Musical Notation |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𜼠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𜼠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9C 0xBC 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD833 0xDF20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001CF20 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud833\udf20 |