U+1D242 "𝉂" Combining Greek Musical Triseme Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝉂
U+1D242 "𝉂" Combining Greek Musical Triseme is a combining mark used in the Ancient Greek musical notation system to indicate a time value or rhythmic unit equivalent to three beats or three short time intervals, often called a triseme, which is placed above or in proximity to a base musical symbol to modify its duration. It belongs to the Ancient Greek Musical Symbols block, where it represents one of several rhythmic and metrical signs that were employed in the earliest known form of Western musical notation, dating from the Hellenistic period. This character is not commonly used in modern digital text but remains essential for scholarly reproduction and study of ancient Greek music theory and inscribed musical fragments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D242 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Combining Greek Musical Triseme |
| Block | Ancient Greek Musical Notation |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝉂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝉂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x89 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDE42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D242 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\ude42 |