U+1D1C4 "𝇄" Musical Symbol Semibrevis Rest Unicode Character

U+1D1C4 "𝇄" Musical Symbol Semibrevis Rest is a specialized glyph from the Musical Symbols block, designed to represent a whole rest in historical or modern music notation, specifically denoting a silence lasting for the duration of a semibreve (a whole note). In contemporary standard notation, it is visually similar to a small, solid horizontal rectangle, typically hanging from the second line of the staff, though its precise shape can vary depending on the font and typeface used. This character serves as a crucial tool for digital music typesetting and manuscript preparation, allowing composers, editors, and musicologists to accurately encode and display the full range of traditional Western musical symbols within plain text or software environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D1C4
Version Added	3.1
Name	Musical Symbol Semibrevis 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 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDDC4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D1C4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\uddc4

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