U+1D1B8 "𝆸" Musical Symbol Brevis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+1D1B8 "𝆸" Musical Symbol Brevis is a glyph used in Western musical notation to represent a note value that is twice as long as a whole note, also known as a double whole note. Historically prevalent in medieval and Renaissance music, it is typically drawn as a hollow, open rectangle or an oval with two vertical lines on either side, depending on the stylistic convention. This symbol is part of the Musical Symbols block in Unicode, designed to preserve and digitally encode historical and contemporary notation systems for accurate representation in text and specialized software.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1D1B8
Name
Musical Symbol Brevis
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𝆸
HTML Hex Encoding
𝆸
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9D 0x86 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD834 0xDDB8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001D1B8
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud834\uddb8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common