U+1D0B6 "𝂶" Byzantine Musical Symbol Enarxis Kai Fthora Vou Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝂶
U+1D0B6 "𝂶" Byzantine Musical Symbol Enarxis Kai Fthora Vou is a notation mark used in Byzantine chant notation, representing a specific musical instruction that combines an enarxis, a sign indicating the beginning of a melodic pattern, with a phthora vou, a modulating symbol that alters the pitch or mode by a whole tone step downwards. This character belongs to the Byzantine Musical Symbols block in Unicode, which encodes the neumes and signs of the medieval and Eastern Christian liturgical music tradition. In practice, the symbol guides a singer or chanter to start a new musical phrase while simultaneously applying a vocal inflection or modal shift, thereby preserving the complex tonal system of Byzantine hymnody.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D0B6 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Byzantine Musical Symbol Enarxis Kai Fthora Vou |
| 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDCB6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D0B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udcb6 |
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 |