U+1D1CF "𝇏" Musical Symbol Croix Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝇏
U+1D1CF "𝇏" Musical Symbol Croix is a specialized notation used in Gregorian chant and early music manuscripts, where it functions as a cross shaped sign indicating a specific melodic or rhythmic inflection, such as a pause, a breath, or a slight alteration in pitch. This symbol belongs to the Musical Symbols block of Unicode, which was designed to preserve and digitally represent historic and modern musical notations that fall outside the standard modern staff system. Its presence in digital text allows scholars, musicians, and typesetters to accurately reproduce medieval and Renaissance liturgical scores, ensuring that subtle performance instructions embedded in the original sources are not lost in transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D1CF |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Croix |
| 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 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDDCF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D1CF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\uddcf |
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 |