Versicle ℣

U+2123
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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.

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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

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