U+1CFBA "𜾺" Znamenny Neume Strela Kryukovaya Gromopovodnaya Unicode Character

U+1CFBA "𜾺" Znamenny Neume Strela Kryukovaya Gromopovodnaya is a musical notation symbol used in Znamenny chant, a traditional liturgical singing style of the Russian Orthodox Church. This specific neume, whose name translates roughly to "hook-shaped lightning arrow," represents a complex melodic movement, typically involving a rapid ascending or descending pattern, and is part of the larger system of kryuki (hooks) that encode pitch and rhythmic nuances in Old Russian manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this ancient Slavic notation system, which dates back to the medieval period and remains significant for historical musicology and liturgical practice.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1CFBA
Version Added	14.0
Name	Znamenny Neume Strela Kryukovaya Gromopovodnaya
Block	Znamenny Musical Notation
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𜾺
HTML Hex Encoding	𜾺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9C 0xBE 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD833 0xDFBA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001CFBA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud833\udfba

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other