Cut time (also called "alla breve") in music notation is represented by a stylized 'C' with a vertical line through it where the time signature would normally be. It represents 2/2 time, and is so called because it is equivalent to common time but "cut in half".

It looks something like this:


      /\
|----| /-------
|    |/      
|----/------|--
|   /|     /|\
|--/-|/\--|-|--
| |  |  |  \|/
|-| -|--|---|--
|  \ |  |    
|---\|_/-------
     |
    \|