U+1D1C3 "𝇃" Musical Symbol Brevis Rest Unicode Character

U+1D1C3 "𝇃" Musical Symbol Brevis Rest is a glyph used in musical notation to indicate a silence or pause lasting for the duration of a breve, which is a note value typically equivalent to two whole notes in early or mensural music. This symbol, part of the Musical Symbols block in Unicode, appears as a thick horizontal rectangle hanging from a staff line, distinct from the modern whole rest by its shape and length, signifying a longer period of silence often found in medieval, Renaissance, and some contemporary scores. Its inclusion in digital text ensures that composers, musicologists, and publishers can accurately represent this historical rest within modern software and fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D1C3
Version Added	3.1
Name	Musical Symbol Brevis 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDDC3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D1C3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\uddc3

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