Versicle ℣
Symbol Meaning
The symbol called “Versicle” is used in Catholic liturgical books. It indicates the first part of a hymn that is sung solo at Matins or other church services. The “Versicle” symbol takes the form of a capital Latin “V” that is crossed by a diagonal line.
The second (choir) part of the hymn is referred to in liturgical texts by the “Response” symbol: ℟ . If you are printing hymn books for Catholic services or restoring old manuscripts, feel free to use these symbols for the graphic design.
The symbol “Versicle” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Versicle |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Letterlike symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2123 |
| Simple case change | 2123 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 A3 | 226 132 163 | 14845091 | 11100010 10000100 10100011 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 23 | 33 35 | 8483 | 00100001 00100011 |
| UTF-16LE | 23 21 | 35 33 | 8993 | 00100011 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 23 | 0 0 33 35 | 8483 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00100011 |
| UTF-32LE | 23 21 00 00 | 35 33 0 0 | 589365248 | 00100011 00100001 00000000 00000000 |