Part alternation mark Emoji

Symbols

A yellow, jagged mark resembling a sideways letter 'V' or a stylized musical turn. It functions as a punctuation sign primarily used in Japanese traditional music to indicate where a singer should start their performance.

Usage Context

You will mostly see this used in karaoke apps, musical notation, or when someone is joking about being ready to start singing. It serves as a cue, similar to how 🎤 highlights a vocal performance or 🎵 indicates a musical theme.

History

Known in Japan as the 'part alternation mark' or 'iori ten', it has been used for centuries in Noh and Renga traditional poetry and song scripts. It was added to the Unicode standard in 1993 to ensure legacy Japanese text files could be rendered correctly on early computer systems.

Details

Glyph

〽

Unicode

U+303D

Shortcode

:emoji_u303d:

HTML Entity

〽

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Symbols

Subcategory other-symbol

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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