U+23D6 "⏖" Metrical Two Shorts Joined Unicode Character

U+23D6 "⏖" Metrical Two Shorts Joined is a typographic symbol from the Unicode Miscellaneous Technical block, specifically designed for music and prosody notation to represent a pair of short metric beats or syllables connected together. It visually resembles two small, filled squares or dots linked by a short horizontal bar, often used in scansion or rhythm diagrams to indicate two consecutive unstressed or light elements in a metrical foot. This character is distinct from separate consecutive breve marks because the joining line emphasizes the two shorts form a single rhythmic unit, such as a pyrrhic or dibrach in classical poetry or a rapid note pair in modern music engraving.

General Properties

Code Point	U+23D6
Version Added	4.1
Name	Metrical Two Shorts Joined
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 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x23D6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000023D6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u23d6

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