U+1D1B5 "𝆵" Musical Symbol Damp All Unicode Character

U+1D1B5 "𝆵" Musical Symbol Damp All is a specialized notation used in musical scores, primarily within percussion and piano music, to instruct the performer to mute or stop all currently sounding notes or vibrations at once, effectively creating a sudden, controlled silence. This symbol belongs to the Musical Symbols block of Unicode, which preserves a wide array of historic and contemporary notation marks for digital text. Its design typically resembles an encircled letter "D" or a similar stylized glyph, ensuring it can be reliably rendered in modern music notation software and documents that support Unicode. By including such a specific marker, composers and arrangers can precisely communicate a dramatic and immediate dampening effect without relying on less standardized textual instructions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D1B5
Version Added	3.1
Name	Musical Symbol Damp All
Block	Musical Symbols
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𝆵
HTML Hex Encoding	𝆵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9D 0x86 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDDB5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D1B5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\uddb5

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other