U+1D118 "𝄘" Musical Symbol Three-Line Staff Unicode Character

U+1D118 "𝄘" Musical Symbol Three-Line Staff is a specialized glyph used in the Western musical notation system to denote a staff consisting of three horizontal lines, typically employed in early music or specific contemporary contexts such as Gregorian chant or percussion scoring. This symbol belongs to the Musical Symbols block of Unicode, which encodes a wide range of notation elements for historical and modern music writing. The three-line staff differs from the standard five-line staff by reducing the number of lines to simplify the notation of melodies that do not require the full range of pitches, making it a precise tool for indicating a limited pitch set in a musical score. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital representation and accurate rendering across platforms and applications that support music notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D118
Version Added	3.1
Name	Musical Symbol Three-Line Staff
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 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDD18
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D118
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\udd18

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