U+1D206 "𝈆" Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-7 Unicode Character

U+1D206 "𝈆" Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-7 is a specialized symbol from the Ancient Greek Musical Notation block, used in historical texts to represent a specific melodic or rhythmic value in the system of vocal notation (phonemes) that preceded the modern Western staff. This particular character corresponds to the seventh sign in a series of symbols that indicated pitch and inflection patterns for singing, often employed in manuscripts of Greek tragedy or lyric poetry. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves the ability to digitally represent and study classical Greek music theory, though it is rarely encountered outside of scholarly works on ancient musicology or specialized philological research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D206
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-7
Block	Ancient Greek Musical Notation
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𝈆
HTML Hex Encoding	𝈆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9D 0x88 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDE06
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D206
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\ude06

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	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other