U+1D1C1 "𝇁" Musical Symbol Longa Perfecta Rest Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝇁
U+1D1C1 "𝇁" Musical Symbol Longa Perfecta Rest is a specialized glyph used in Western musical notation to indicate a rest lasting the duration of a longa, a mensural note value from the medieval and Renaissance eras. In the context of mensural notation, a "perfecta" longa rest signified a grouping of three breve rests, aligning with the ternary (perfect) meter that was considered ideal in early music theory. This symbol is encoded in the Musical Symbols block of Unicode, allowing modern digital typesetting to accurately reproduce historical music manuscripts. Its visual appearance typically resembles a thick, vertical block or bar, distinct from the more common rests used in contemporary standard notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D1C1 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Longa Perfecta Rest |
| 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 0x87 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDDC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D1C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\uddc1 |
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 |