U+1D094 "𝂔" Byzantine Musical Symbol Digorgon Parestigmenon Aristera Ano Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝂔
U+1D094 "𝂔" Byzantine Musical Symbol Digorgon Parestigmenon Aristera Ano is part of the Byzantine Musical Symbols block, used in the neumatic notation system of Byzantine chant to represent a specific melodic ornament or interval. This glyph indicates a double downward inflection combined with a slight ascending note attached on the left side, as suggested by its name "Digorgon Parestigmenon Aristera Ano," which translates roughly to "double gorgon with left side upward attachment." It functions as a guide for singers in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical tradition to accurately perform the complex microtonal and rhythmic variations of the chant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D094 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Byzantine Musical Symbol Digorgon Parestigmenon Aristera Ano |
| 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 0x82 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDC94 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D094 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udc94 |
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 |