U+1D050 "𝁐" Byzantine Musical Symbol Ypsili Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝁐
U+1D050 "𝁐" Byzantine Musical Symbol Ypsili is a notation mark used in Byzantine music notation, representing a specific melodic ornament or vocal inflection within the ancient and medieval chanting traditions of the Eastern Orthodox Church. This symbol, part of the Byzantine Musical Symbols block introduced in Unicode 3.1, serves as a diacritic above or near the main neume text to guide singers in pitch, tempo, or phrasing, preserving the complex oral tradition of Byzantine hymnography through a standardized digital encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D050 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Byzantine Musical Symbol Ypsili |
| Block | Byzantine Musical Symbols |
| 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 0x9D 0x81 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDC50 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D050 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udc50 |
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 |