U+1D244 "𝉄" Combining Greek Musical Pentaseme Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝉄
U+1D244 "𝉄" Combining Greek Musical Pentaseme is a specialized diacritical mark used in the context of ancient Greek musical notation, where it represents a duration or rhythm equivalent to five time units or five beats within a musical phrase. As a combining character, it is designed to be placed above or below another musical symbol to modify its temporal value, belonging to the Ancient Greek Musical Notation block of the Unicode standard. Its use is primarily academic and historical, appearing in scholarly editions and digital transcriptions of ancient texts that preserve the rhythmic nuances of Greek music from the classical and Hellenistic periods.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D244 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Combining Greek Musical Pentaseme |
| 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 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDE44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D244 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\ude44 |