U+1D173 "" Musical Symbol Begin Beam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1D173 "" Musical Symbol Begin Beam is a control character used in the standard notation of musical scores to mark the starting point of a beam, which is the thick horizontal line or lines that connect a series of notes, such as eighth notes or sixteenth notes, to indicate they are to be played in the same rhythmic group. Unlike visible musical symbols, this character is non printing and functions as an invisible marker within encoded music representation systems like Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL), allowing text based music software to correctly group notes together for playback and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D173 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Begin Beam |
| Block | Musical Symbols |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝅳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝅳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x85 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDD73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D173 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udd73 |