Part alternation mark

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Shortcode
:part_alternation_mark:
Unicode
U+303D
HTML
〽
CSS
\303D
JavaScript
"\u{303D}"
URL
%E3%80%BD%EF%B8%8F

alternationmarkpart

What 〽️ means

A jagged line shaped like an M. It comes from traditional Japanese song texts, where it marks the point where a singer's part begins.

Outside Japan most people use 〽️ as a letter M, as a zigzag chart line, or as a decorative squiggle. In stock or crypto talk it can stand for a price that swings up and down.

Facts

Part alternation mark 〽️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under other symbol. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :part_alternation_mark:. People also look for it with words like “alternation”, “mark”, or “part”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. part alternation mark, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. part alternation mark, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. part alternation mark, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. part alternation mark, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. part alternation mark, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0