U+23D1 "⏑" Metrical Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⏑
U+23D1 "⏑" Metrical Breve is a typographic symbol used in the notation of poetry and musical meter to represent a short or unstressed syllable in a line of verse. It is the visual counterpart to the macron, which marks a long or stressed syllable, and is most commonly employed in scansion diagrams and linguistic studies to illustrate stress patterns in metrical analysis. The character is part of the Miscellaneous Technical block in Unicode, where it serves as a distinct glyph for specialized scholarly and editorial work involving prosody.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+23D1 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Metrical Breve |
| Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⏑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⏑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8F 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x23D1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000023D1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u23d1 |
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 | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |