U+1D182 "𝆂" Musical Symbol Combining Loure Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝆂
U+1D182 "𝆂" Musical Symbol Combining Loure is a special notation used within the Western musical tradition, specifically a combining mark from the medieval period known as a louvre or louré symbol. It is classified under the Musical Symbols block and is designed to be placed above or below a note to indicate that it should be played with a slight, gentle separation or a soft, detached articulation, often resembling a delicate portato or a non legato touch. This character is intended for use in digital musical scores and specialized typography to accurately reproduce historical or expressive performance instructions that would otherwise require elaborate text descriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D182 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Combining Loure |
| Block | Musical Symbols |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝆂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝆂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x86 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDD82 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D182 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udd82 |