Music notation glossary · Rests
Quarter rest
one beat of silence
As a Unicode character — to paste into text, spreadsheets or chat. Whether it appears depends on the font.
In the score
What it means
The sign that looks like a sideways lightning bolt. It is by far the most common rest.
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