Musical Symbols (Unicode block)

For symbols used in music notation, see List of musical symbols.
For simple Unicode musical note and accidental symbols, see Miscellaneous Symbols.
Musical Symbols
RangeU+1D100..U+1D1FF
(256 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon (211 char.)
Inherited (22 char.)
Symbol setsModern musical notation
Assigned233 code points
Unused23 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.1 (2001)219 (+219)
5.1 (2008)220 (+1)
8.0 (2015)231 (+11)
14.0 (2021)233 (+2)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
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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.[3]

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "Standard Music Font Layout website". 7 February 2013. Retrieved 2018-02-24.