Musical Symbol Begin Beam

Musical Symbol Begin Beam is a musical notation symbol representing a specific note value, rest, clef, or performance direction from traditional Western sheet-music notation.

Unicode block: Musical Symbols (U+1D100–U+1D1FF). This block digitizes traditional Western music notation — notes, rests, clefs, dynamics — allowing musical scores and theory text to be represented in plain digital text rather than only as images.

At Unicode code point U+1D173 (decimal 119155), Musical Symbol Begin Beam is the 114th of 233 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, like most characters outside the 0–255 legacy codepage range, it has no dedicated Alt-code or single-key shortcut on Windows or Mac, so copy-paste is the standard, universal method for typing it. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.

💡 Good to know: This character is meant for referencing musical notation in text (like an article about music theory) — for actually composing or engraving sheet music, dedicated notation software (MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale) is the standard tool.