U+1D179 "" Musical Symbol Begin Phrase Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1D179 "" Musical Symbol Begin Phrase is a notation symbol used in the SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout) framework to denote the start of a musical phrase within modern engraving software. Visually, it resembles a small, angled flourish or hook, often placed above the staff to mark the beginning of a phrase boundary in a score, aiding performers in interpreting musical structure and articulation. This character resides in the Musical Symbols block of Unicode, which encodes a wide range of specialized glyphs for representing Western classical and contemporary music notation in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D179 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Begin Phrase |
| 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 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDD79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D179 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udd79 |