U+1D11B "𝄛" Musical Symbol Six-Line Staff Unicode Character

U+1D11B "𝄛" Musical Symbol Six-Line Staff is a typographic representation used in musical notation to indicate a staff composed of six horizontal lines, which was historically employed in certain early music manuscripts, particularly for keyboard or vocal works, to accommodate a wider range of notes within a single system. Unlike the modern standard five-line staff, this symbol serves as a formatting marker in digital text, allowing composers and editors to specify the use of a six-line staff when encoding musical scores in plain text or specialized markup languages. It belongs to the Musical Symbols block of Unicode and is primarily utilized in academic, historical, or niche publishing contexts rather than in contemporary common practice.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D11B
Version Added	3.1
Name	Musical Symbol Six-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 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDD1B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D11B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\udd1b

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