Musical Symbol Common Time
Part of Music Notation Symbols
Musical Symbol Common Time has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- 𝄴
- Unicode
- U+1D134
About this symbol
The common time sign looks like a C and means four beats in a bar, the same as 4/4. Its shape goes back to medieval notation, where a full circle stood for triple time and a broken circle, which looks like a C, for duple time.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MUSICAL SYMBOL COMMON TIME
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Musical Symbols
- Unicode group
- Time signatures
- Added in
- Unicode 3.1 (2001)
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