U+1D1C3 "𝇃" Musical Symbol Brevis Rest Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1D1C3 "𝇃" Musical Symbol Brevis Rest is a glyph used in musical notation to indicate a silence or pause lasting for the duration of a breve, which is a note value typically equivalent to two whole notes in early or mensural music. This symbol, part of the Musical Symbols block in Unicode, appears as a thick horizontal rectangle hanging from a staff line, distinct from the modern whole rest by its shape and length, signifying a longer period of silence often found in medieval, Renaissance, and some contemporary scores. Its inclusion in digital text ensures that composers, musicologists, and publishers can accurately represent this historical rest within modern software and fonts.
𝇂
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𝇄
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Musical Symbol Semibrevis Rest
General Properties
Code Point
U+1D1C3
Name
Musical Symbol Brevis Rest
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𝇃
HTML Hex Encoding
𝇃
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9D 0x87 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD834 0xDDC3
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001D1C3
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud834\uddc3
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common