U+1D1B8 "𝆸" Musical Symbol Brevis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝆸
U+1D1B8 "𝆸" Musical Symbol Brevis is a glyph used in Western musical notation to represent a note value that is twice as long as a whole note, also known as a double whole note. Historically prevalent in medieval and Renaissance music, it is typically drawn as a hollow, open rectangle or an oval with two vertical lines on either side, depending on the stylistic convention. This symbol is part of the Musical Symbols block in Unicode, designed to preserve and digitally encode historical and contemporary notation systems for accurate representation in text and specialized software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D1B8 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Brevis |
| 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDDB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D1B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\uddb8 |
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 |