U+1D09C "𝂜" Byzantine Musical Symbol Agogi Argi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝂜
U+1D09C "𝂜" Byzantine Musical Symbol Agogi Argi is a notation used in Byzantine chant, a liturgical musical tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church. This specific symbol represents a rhythmic or agogic marking, indicating a slight slowing or broadening of the tempo in the melodic line. It belongs to the Byzantine Musical Symbols block of Unicode, which was added to encode the neumatic notation system developed in the Byzantine Empire. The Agogi Argi, along with other agogi signs, helps performers interpret the expressive flow of the chant, guiding the duration and emphasis of notes in a way that is not strictly metrical but rather fluid and rhetorical.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D09C |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Byzantine Musical Symbol Agogi Argi |
| 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDC9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D09C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udc9c |
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 |