U+1D115 "𝄕" Musical Symbol Bracket Unicode Character

U+1D115 "𝄕" Musical Symbol Bracket is a typographic mark used in musical notation to denote the beginning and end of a group of notes that are to be played together or treated as a single expressive unit, such as within a slur or a phrase indication. It functions specifically as an opening bracket, often paired with its corresponding closing bracket U+1D116, to visually enclose a passage for clarity in complex scores. This character belongs to the Musical Symbols block of Unicode and is designed for use in professional music engraving and digital sheet music, allowing for precise, computer readable representation of traditional notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D115
Version Added	3.1
Name	Musical Symbol Bracket
Block	Musical Symbols
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𝄕
HTML Hex Encoding	𝄕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9D 0x84 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDD15
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D115
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\udd15

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other