U+1D158 "𝅘" Musical Symbol Notehead Black Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝅘
U+1D158 "𝅘" Musical Symbol Notehead Black is a specific glyph used in musical notation to represent a standard filled-in notehead, typically indicating a shorter rhythmic value such as a quarter note or eighth note in modern Western music. It belongs to the Musical Symbols block of the Unicode standard, which was designed to encode a wide range of traditional and contemporary musical notation elements for digital text and typography. This character is distinct from the ordinary filled circle used in many fonts, as it is explicitly intended for use within musical scores, ensuring proper alignment and rendering alongside other musical symbols like stems, flags, and accidentals.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D158 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Notehead Black |
| 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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDD58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D158 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udd58 |
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 |