U+1D17C "𝅼" Musical Symbol Combining Staccato Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝅼
U+1D17C "𝅼" Musical Symbol Combining Staccato is a combining diacritical mark used in musical notation to indicate that a note should be played in a short, detached, and separated manner, as opposed to a sustained or legato style. This small dot, when placed above or below a notehead, instructs the performer to reduce the note's duration and add a slight silence before the next note, thereby creating a crisp and articulated effect. It belongs to the Musical Symbols block of Unicode and is part of the comprehensive set of characters designed for accurately representing Western musical notation in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D17C |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Combining Staccato |
| Block | Musical Symbols |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝅼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝅼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x85 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDD7C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D17C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udd7c |