What 𝅒 means
A notehead shape, not a complete note. It is the head of a note: pitch comes from where it sits on the staff, and rhythm comes from the stem, flags or beams attached to it. Pasted alone into a message, it carries only the shape.
Its best-documented job is a teaching trick from American shape-note singing. The Easy Instructor of 1801 printed notes in four shapes so singers could learn solfège — the do-re-mi syllables — before standard round-note notation. Jesse B. Aikin's 1846 tunebook The Christian Minstrel expanded the set to seven and gave the moon-white head to 're.' Funk and Walker seven-shape systems use their own moon variants, so the syllable depends on the book.
Specialist notation, not a chat symbol — pasted into a message it reads as a scrap of sheet music, not a moon.
Do not call every moon-shaped notehead 're'; that reading belongs to Aikin's system.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA pasted notation glyph; with no staff or stem attached, there is no pitch or rhythm to read.
Questions people ask
2Can this symbol always be read as re?
No. The 're' reading belongs to Aikin's seven-shape system; other shape-note books assign moon heads differently, and outside that tradition it is simply an alternate notehead.
Why does it look different in a font, or show as a box?
Many everyday fonts skip this rare character, so it can render as an empty box. A font with musical-symbol coverage, such as a SMuFL score font, draws the intended hollow moon.
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- Also called
- moon notehead · moon-shaped notehead · moon-white notehead
- Search it as
- notehead · shape note · shaped notes · moon note · aikin · aiken · re note · seven shape notation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝅒\1D152Codes and encoding1 code points
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