U+1D1C5 "𝇅" Musical Symbol Minima Rest Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝇅
U+1D1C5 "𝇅" Musical Symbol Minima Rest is a glyph used in musical notation to represent a rest that lasts for the duration of a minima, which is equivalent to a half note in the modern whole note system. Historically employed in mensural notation from the Renaissance and medieval periods, this symbol instructs the performer to remain silent for two beats in common time, corresponding to half of a whole note rest. It is part of the Musical Symbols block of the Unicode standard, allowing such specialized notation to be digitally encoded and displayed across modern computing platforms for musicological research, score editing, and academic typesetting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D1C5 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Minima 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 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDDC5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D1C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\uddc5 |
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 |