# Musical Symbols (Unicode block)

Musical Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing modern musical notation. Fonts that support it include Bravura, Euterpe, FreeSerif, Musica and Symbola. The Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL), which is supported by the MusicXML format, expands on the Musical Symbols Unicode Block's 220 glyphs by using the Private Use Area in the Basic Multilingual Plane, permitting close to 2600 glyphs.

## Block

Musical Symbols Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+1D10x | 𝄀 | 𝄁 | 𝄂 | 𝄃 | 𝄄 | 𝄅 | 𝄆 | 𝄇 | 𝄈 | 𝄉 | 𝄊 | 𝄋 | 𝄌 | 𝄍 | 𝄎 | 𝄏 |
| U+1D11x | 𝄐 | 𝄑 | 𝄒 | 𝄓 | 𝄔 | 𝄕 | 𝄖 | 𝄗 | 𝄘 | 𝄙 | 𝄚 | 𝄛 | 𝄜 | 𝄝 | 𝄞 | 𝄟 |
| U+1D12x | 𝄠 | 𝄡 | 𝄢 | 𝄣 | 𝄤 | 𝄥 | 𝄦 | | | 𝄩 | 𝄪 | 𝄫 | 𝄬 | 𝄭 | 𝄮 | 𝄯 |
| U+1D13x | 𝄰 | 𝄱 | 𝄲 | 𝄳 | 𝄴 | 𝄵 | 𝄶 | 𝄷 | 𝄸 | 𝄹 | 𝄺 | 𝄻 | 𝄼 | 𝄽 | 𝄾 | 𝄿 |
| U+1D14x | 𝅀 | 𝅁 | 𝅂 | 𝅃 | 𝅄 | 𝅅 | 𝅆 | 𝅇 | 𝅈 | 𝅉 | 𝅊 | 𝅋 | 𝅌 | 𝅍 | 𝅎 | 𝅏 |
| U+1D15x | 𝅐 | 𝅑 | 𝅒 | 𝅓 | 𝅔 | 𝅕 | 𝅖 | 𝅗 | 𝅘 | NULL NOTE HEAD | 𝅚 | 𝅛 | 𝅜 | 𝅝 | 𝅗𝅥 | 𝅘𝅥 |
| U+1D16x | 𝅘𝅥𝅮 | 𝅘𝅥𝅯 | 𝅘𝅥𝅰 | 𝅘𝅥𝅱 | 𝅘𝅥𝅲 | 𝅥 | 𝅦 | 𝅧 | 𝅨 | 𝅩 | 𝅪 | 𝅫 | 𝅬 | 𝅭 | 𝅮 | 𝅯 |
| U+1D17x | 𝅰 | 𝅱 | 𝅲 | BEGIN BEAM | END BEAM | BEGIN TIE | END TIE | BEGIN SLUR | END SLUR | BEGIN PHR. | END PHR. | 𝅻 | 𝅼 | 𝅽 | 𝅾 | 𝅿 |
| U+1D18x | 𝆀 | 𝆁 | 𝆂 | 𝆃 | 𝆄 | 𝆅 | 𝆆 | 𝆇 | 𝆈 | 𝆉 | 𝆊 | 𝆋 | 𝆌 | 𝆍 | 𝆎 | 𝆏 |
| U+1D19x | 𝆐 | 𝆑 | 𝆒 | 𝆓 | 𝆔 | 𝆕 | 𝆖 | 𝆗 | 𝆘 | 𝆙 | 𝆚 | 𝆛 | 𝆜 | 𝆝 | 𝆞 | 𝆟 |
| U+1D1Ax | 𝆠 | 𝆡 | 𝆢 | 𝆣 | 𝆤 | 𝆥 | 𝆦 | 𝆧 | 𝆨 | 𝆩 | 𝆪 | 𝆫 | 𝆬 | 𝆭 | 𝆮 | 𝆯 |
| U+1D1Bx | 𝆰 | 𝆱 | 𝆲 | 𝆳 | 𝆴 | 𝆵 | 𝆶 | 𝆷 | 𝆸 | 𝆹 | 𝆺 | 𝆹𝅥 | 𝆺𝅥 | 𝆹𝅥𝅮 | 𝆺𝅥𝅮 | 𝆹𝅥𝅯 |
| U+1D1Cx | 𝆺𝅥𝅯 | 𝇁 | 𝇂 | 𝇃 | 𝇄 | 𝇅 | 𝇆 | 𝇇 | 𝇈 | 𝇉 | 𝇊 | 𝇋 | 𝇌 | 𝇍 | 𝇎 | 𝇏 |
| U+1D1Dx | 𝇐 | 𝇑 | 𝇒 | 𝇓 | 𝇔 | 𝇕 | 𝇖 | 𝇗 | 𝇘 | 𝇙 | 𝇚 | 𝇛 | 𝇜 | 𝇝 | 𝇞 | 𝇟 |
| U+1D1Ex | 𝇠 | 𝇡 | 𝇢 | 𝇣 | 𝇤 | 𝇥 | 𝇦 | 𝇧 | 𝇨 | 𝇩 | 𝇪 | | | | | |
| U+1D1Fx | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Musical Symbols block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/97-129 | | Roland, Perry (1996-12-03), Proposal for encoding Western music symbols in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/97-264 | | Aliprand, Joan (1997-11-25), Comments on Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | | N1693 | Roland, Perry (1998-02-19), Proposal for encoding Western Music symbols |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/98-045 | | Roland, Perry (1998-02-23), Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/98-039 | | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), "3.A.1 REVISED PROPOSAL a. Western Music", Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997 |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/98-070 | | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "Western Music", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998 |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.21", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/99-392 | | Hodgson, Andrew (1999-12-24), Comments on the Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/00-179 | | Everson, Michael (2000-06-08), Draft Irish comments to FCD 10646-2:2000 (Musical symbols chart) |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | | N2280 | Suignard, Michel (2000-09-22), "Clause 10 Western musical symbols (Two identically named sectins: One under Ireland, one under Sweden)", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 3442 (ISO/IEC FCD 10646-2) |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/04-258 | | Cline, Ernest (2004-04-17), Musical symbol errors |
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/04-316 | | Moore, Lisa (2004-08-19), "B.15.14", UTC #100 Minutes |
| 5.1 | U+1D129 | 1 | L2/05-258 | N2983 | Andries, Patrick (2005-09-07), Defect report and proposal to add one musical multiple rest character |
| 5.1 | U+1D129 | 1 | L2/05-270 | | Whistler, Ken (2005-09-21), "H. Musical symbol", WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis) |
| 5.1 | U+1D129 | 1 | L2/05-279 | | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.10", UTC #105 Minutes |
| 5.1 | U+1D129 | 1 | | N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "11.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 |
| 8.0 | U+1D1DE..1D1E8 | 11 | L2/11-376 | | Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2011-09-29), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation in Unicode |
| 8.0 | U+1D1DE..1D1E8 | 11 | L2/12-022 | N4206 | Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2011-09-29), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation |
| 8.0 | U+1D1DE..1D1E8 | 11 | L2/12-122 | | Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2012-04-23), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation in Unicode |
| 8.0 | U+1D1DE..1D1E8 | 11 | L2/12-327 | N4362 | Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2012-10-04), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation |
| 8.0 | U+1D1DE..1D1E8 | 11 | L2/12-343R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C15", UTC #133 Minutes, Approve 11 East-Slavic musical symbols |
| 8.0 | U+1D1DE..1D1E8 | 11 | | N4353 (pdf, doc) | "M60.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 |
| 14.0 | U+1D1E9..1D1EA | 2 | L2/20-159 | | Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-04-23), Proposal to encode two accidentals for Iranian classical music |
| 14.0 | U+1D1E9..1D1EA | 2 | L2/20-169 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-07-21), "27. Music Symbols", Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals |
| 14.0 | U+1D1E9..1D1EA | 2 | L2/20-172 | | Moore, Lisa (2020-08-03), "Consensus 164-C17", UTC #164 Minutes |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||