Metrical Breve
Metrical Breve 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+23D1
About this symbol
⏑, the metrical breve, marks a short syllable when poetry is scanned into its rhythm, and a macron ¯ marks a long one, as in the dactyl, long short short, of Homer’s verse.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- METRICAL BREVE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Unicode group
- Metrical symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 4.1 (2005)
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