U+1D210 "𝈐" Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-17 Unicode Character

U+1D210 "𝈐" Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-17 is a specialized glyph used in the transcription and study of Ancient Greek music, representing a specific pitch or melodic interval within the system of vocal notation developed by the ancient Greeks. This symbol belongs to the Ancient Greek Musical Notation block of the Unicode standard, which encodes over seventy signs that were employed alongside text to indicate the relative pitch of sung syllables. While the exact musical meaning of symbol 17 is not universally identified in modern scholarship, it would have functioned within a larger scale of neume-like marks to guide the performer’s voice. Its inclusion in Unicode allows historians, philologists, and musicians to accurately reproduce and analyze ancient scores from sources such as the Seikilos epitaph and the Delphic hymns, preserving a rare and significant aspect of Hellenic cultural heritage in digital form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D210
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-17
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 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDE10
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D210
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\ude10

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