U+1D15F "𝅘𝅥" Musical Symbol Quarter Note Unicode Character
U+1D15F "𝅘𝅥" Musical Symbol Quarter Note is a standardized digital representation of the quarter note, a fundamental musical symbol denoting a note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note. It is part of the Musical Symbols block (U+1D100 to U+1D1FF) in Unicode, which was introduced to support a wide range of musical notation in electronic text and digital sheet music. This character allows composers, musicians, and software developers to encode the quarter note in plain text without relying on images or specialized fonts, ensuring consistent display across different platforms and devices. As one of the most common rhythmic values in Western music, the quarter note symbol serves as a building block for indicating rhythm, tempo, and musical structure in written scores.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D15F |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Quarter Note |
| Block | Musical Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "𝅘" U+1D158 Musical Symbol Notehead Black "𝅥" U+1D165 Musical Symbol Combining Stem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝅘𝅥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝅘𝅥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x85 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDD5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D15F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udd5f |