U+1D227 "𝈧" Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-17 Unicode Character

U+1D227 "𝈧" Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-17 is a specific glyph belonging to the Ancient Greek Musical Notation block, which encodes symbols used in the documented musical scores and theoretical treatises of classical and Hellenistic Greece. This particular symbol represents one of the graphic marks employed in ancient Greek instrumental notation, a system distinct from vocal notation that used different letters and signs to indicate pitch and rhythm specifically for instruments like the kithara or aulos. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for the accurate digital representation and scholarly study of these historical musical manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D227
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Instrumental 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 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDE27
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D227
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\ude27

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