U+1D1BE "𝆺𝅥𝅮" Musical Symbol Semiminima Black Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝆺𝅥𝅮
U+1D1BE "𝆺𝅥𝅮" Musical Symbol Semiminima Black is a historic notation symbol used in medieval and Renaissance mensural notation to represent a note value equivalent to a modern half note or minim, though its exact rhythmic duration could vary based on the time signature or mensuration sign. This filled-in, square-shaped glyph is part of the Musical Symbols block within Unicode, designed to aid in the digital representation and scholarly transcription of early music manuscripts. Its inclusion allows musicians and researchers to faithfully encode and display this specific semiminima shape without resorting to generic or approximate symbols.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D1BE |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Semiminima Black |
| Block | Musical Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "𝆺𝅥" U+1D1BC Musical Symbol Minima Black "𝅮" U+1D16E Musical Symbol Combining Flag-1 |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝆺𝅥𝅮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝆺𝅥𝅮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x86 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDDBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D1BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\uddbe |