U+1D22B "𝈫" Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-24 Unicode Character

U+1D22B "𝈫" Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-24 is a specific symbol from the ancient Greek system of instrumental musical notation, which was used primarily to notate melodies for instruments like the kithara and aulos. This character represents the twenty fourth distinct sign in the series of such notation symbols, each of which indicated a particular pitch or rhythmic value within a scale. Unlike the more familiar vocal notation system, instrumental notation employed a different set of glyphs derived from archaic Greek letters and diacritical marks, and U+1D22B is one of these rare historical characters preserved in the Unicode Standard for scholarly and digital representation of ancient texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D22B
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-24
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 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDE2B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D22B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\ude2b

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