U+1D1BC "𝆺𝅥" Musical Symbol Minima Black Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝆺𝅥
U+1D1BC "𝆺𝅥" Musical Symbol Minima Black is a historical musical notation glyph used in mensural notation from the Medieval and Renaissance periods, representing a specific note value known as the minima. This black notehead shape indicates a rhythmic duration that is half the length of a semibrevis in the context of white mensural notation, where notes were filled in to denote shorter values after a system shift from fully black to white notation. As part of the Musical Symbols block in Unicode, this character enables digital representation and typesetting of early music manuscripts, preserving the visual articulation of tempo and meter in compositions from the 14th to 16th centuries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D1BC |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Minima Black |
| Block | Musical Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "𝆺" U+1D1BA Musical Symbol Semibrevis Black "𝅥" U+1D165 Musical Symbol Combining Stem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝆺𝅥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝆺𝅥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x86 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDDBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D1BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\uddbc |