(Music)a note, rarely used in modern music, having the time value of two semibreves, and represented as a semibreve with two short bars either side, or as a square (乐)二全音符
a written or printed mark (ˇ) indicating a short of unstressed vowel 短音符号(ˇ)
(historical)an authoritative letter from a pope or monarch (史)(教皇或君主的)谕令,上谕
语源
Middle English : variant of briefIn the musical sense, the term was originally used in a series where a long was of greater time value than a breve