U+23D8 "⏘" Metrical Tetraseme Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⏘
U+23D8 "⏘" Metrical Tetraseme is a typographic symbol used in the field of textual criticism and classical manuscript study, specifically within the annotation of ancient Greek and Latin metrical texts. This glyph represents a metrical tetraseme, which indicates a metrical foot or musical beat consisting of four short syllables or four morae, often employed by editors and scholars to mark a specific rhythmic pattern in a line of verse. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for precise digital representation of such scholarly notations, preserving the accurate transmission of ancient poetic and musical analyses in modern electronic documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+23D8 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Metrical Tetraseme |
| 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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x23D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000023D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u23d8 |
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 |