U+1D11A "𝄚" Musical Symbol Five-Line Staff Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝄚
U+1D11A "𝄚" Musical Symbol Five-Line Staff is a graphic character used in musical notation to represent the five parallel lines that form the foundation for writing notes and other musical symbols on a score. It is part of the Musical Symbols block (U+1D100 to U+1D1FF) of the Unicode Standard, which was designed to encode traditional Western music notation and other music scripts for digital text. This specific symbol allows for precise display of the staff independent of text fonts, enabling software and documents to render a standard five line staff without relying on images or complex formatting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D11A |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Five-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 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDD1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D11A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udd1a |
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 |