What 𝈐 means
It marks the first raised c in ancient Greek vocal notation. Natural c (), 𝈐, and form a three-sign series.
Vocal notation paired pitch signs with sung text by the late fifth century BCE. The earliest surviving written examples date from the middle of the third century BCE. Papyrus sheets from Graeco-Roman Egypt preserve examples, including music for Euripides’ tragedy Orestes and later Christian hymns.
A specialist sign in ancient Greek music transcription.
Θ is a letter; 𝈐 is a pitch sign, not a fixed modern C-sharp.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1
Questions people ask
1Why does 𝈐 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type or find 𝈐
- Search it as
- first sharp of c · c-sharp · Greek vocal notation · theta-like music sign
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝈐\1D210Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.