U+1D0E5 "𝃥" Byzantine Musical Symbol Simansis Arseos Tetrasimou Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1D0E5 "𝃥" Byzantine Musical Symbol Simansis Arseos Tetrasimou is a specialized glyph from the Byzantine Musical Symbols block, used in medieval and modern notation for Byzantine chant. This symbol represents a specific musical ornament or rhythmic nuance, translating roughly to "sign of the tetrasimou (fourfold) arsis or lifting," and it indicates a particular way of shaping or accenting a melodic phrase in the modal system of Byzantine music. Its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars, liturgists, and musicians to accurately encode and preserve the rich notational heritage of Eastern Orthodox chant, ensuring that subtle performance instructions are digitally represented without loss of meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D0E5 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Byzantine Musical Symbol Simansis Arseos Tetrasimou |
| 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 0x83 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDCE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D0E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udce5 |
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 |