U+1D1AA "𝆪" Musical Symbol Combining down Bow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝆪
U+1D1AA "𝆪" Musical Symbol Combining down Bow is a typographic mark from the Musical Symbols block, specifically designed for use in musical notation. It represents a down bow, indicating to a string instrument player that the bow should be drawn downward from the frog to the tip across the strings. As a combining character, it is intended to be placed in conjunction with preceding musical notes or symbols, modifying their performance instruction without standing alone. This character helps convey essential articulation and bowing technique in sheet music for instruments like the violin, cello, or double bass.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D1AA |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Combining down Bow |
| Block | Musical Symbols |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝆪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝆪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x86 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDDAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D1AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\uddaa |