U+1D112 "𝄒" Musical Symbol Breath Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝄒
U+1D112 "𝄒" Musical Symbol Breath Mark is a typographic sign used in musical notation to indicate where a performer should take a brief pause to breathe, primarily in vocal and wind instrument parts. It appears as a small comma-like mark placed above the staff, resembling a tiny apostrophe or inverted caret. This character belongs to the Musical Symbols block of Unicode, which was introduced to standardize digital representation of Western musical notation. Its inclusion allows composers, arrangers, and music software to clearly communicate phrasing and timing without relying on ambiguous substitutes like a regular comma or an apostrophe.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D112 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Breath Mark |
| Block | 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 0x84 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDD12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D112 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udd12 |
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 |