U+1D152 "𝅒" Musical Symbol Moon Notehead White Unicode Character

U+1D152 "𝅒" Musical Symbol Moon Notehead White is a specialized glyph used in Western musical notation to represent a notehead shaped like a crescent or half moon, typically drawn as an open, white (unfilled) oval with a curved, lunar contour. This symbol is part of the Musical Symbols block, which was added to Unicode to support precise typesetting of modern and historical scores. Unlike standard noteheads, such as the common oval, the moon notehead is employed in specific compositional contexts to indicate a particular timbral effect, a muted or harmonically altered tone, or a notational variant in experimental music. Its inclusion in Unicode allows digital music software and fonts to accurately render this rare symbol for scholarly editions, sheet music publishing, and archival preservation of avant-garde works.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D152
Version Added	3.1
Name	Musical Symbol Moon Notehead White
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 0x85 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDD52
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D152
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\udd52

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