U+1D243 "𝉃" Combining Greek Musical Tetraseme Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝉃
U+1D243 "𝉃" Combining Greek Musical Tetraseme is a diacritical mark from the Ancient Greek Musical Notation block used in historical texts to indicate a metrical unit of four short time periods or beats within a musical or rhythmic passage. It is designed to combine with a preceding Greek letter or symbol, stacking above it to modify its duration or tempo in the context of ancient Greek music theory. This character is primarily of interest to scholars studying ancient Greek musical scores, papyri, and rhythmic notation, as it helps preserve the precise timing intended by the original composers. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation and analysis of these rare and specialized inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D243 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Combining Greek Musical Tetraseme |
| 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 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDE43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D243 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\ude43 |