U+1D1B7 "𝆷" Musical Symbol Longa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝆷
U+1D1B7 "𝆷" Musical Symbol Longa is a notation used in medieval and Renaissance music to represent a note value of considerable length, typically equivalent to two or three breves depending on the mensural system of the time. It appears as a black, stemless rectangular note head, distinct from later modern symbols, and is part of the Unicode block dedicated to musical notation, which helps preserve historical Western music scripts in digital text. This symbol was primarily employed in early polyphonic compositions before the standardization of modern note durations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D1B7 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Longa |
| 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 0x86 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDDB7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D1B7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\uddb7 |
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 |