U+1D13B "𝄻" Musical Symbol Whole Rest Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝄻
U+1D13B "𝄻" Musical Symbol Whole Rest is a typographic glyph used in musical notation to indicate a silence or pause lasting the duration of an entire measure, regardless of the time signature, in standard Western sheet music. It is visually represented as a small, solid, horizontal rectangle that hangs below the fourth line of the musical staff, distinguishing it from a half rest which sits above the middle line. This character is part of the Musical Symbols block in Unicode, allowing for digital representation and rendering in modern text systems and music software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D13B |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Whole Rest |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDD3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D13B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udd3b |
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 |