Musical Symbol Void Notehead

It is a hollow notehead, the part of a written note. In music notation, a notehead marks pitch, while its fill and stem help show duration.

Mensural notation—a medieval and Renaissance system for writing measured rhythm—gradually shifted from filled black figures to outlined “void” figures during the second quarter of the fifteenth century. Blackening remained a way to mark a rhythmic change, a convention called coloration.

In Unicode's text model, 𝅗 followed by the combining stem 𝅥 forms the half-note sequence 𝅗𝅥. A notehead character has no staff position, so it cannot show a pitch or where it falls in a score.