U+1D13E "𝄾" Musical Symbol Eighth Rest Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝄾
U+1D13E "𝄾" Musical Symbol Eighth Rest is a specific glyph used in musical notation to indicate a silence lasting the duration of one eighth note, equivalent to half a beat in common time. This character is part of the Musical Symbols block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support the encoding of Western musical notation in digital text formats. The symbol itself resembles a stylized, oblique stroke with a small hook or flag, and its standard appearance is designed to align with traditional printed music scores, allowing composers, editors, and software to represent rests uniformly across different platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D13E |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Eighth 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 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDD3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D13E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udd3e |
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 |