U+23D4 "⏔" Metrical Long over Two Shorts Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⏔
U+23D4 "⏔" Metrical Long over Two Shorts is a symbol used in modern textual representations of ancient Greek and Latin poetic meter, specifically to indicate a single long syllable equivalent in duration to two short syllables, a rhythmic unit known as a dactyl or an anapest depending on context. This character belongs to the Miscellaneous Technical block and serves a specialized role in scansion markup, allowing scholars and editors to visually represent complex metrical patterns in text without relying on diacritical marks or ambiguous notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+23D4 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Metrical Long over Two Shorts |
| 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 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x23D4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000023D4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u23d4 |
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 |