A small hooked squiggle, officially the part alternation mark, drawn from a Japanese notation called the ioriten. Traditional music and poetry use it, Noh drama and renga, linked-verse poetry, among them, to mark where a new part or singer takes over. It reads almost like a lopsided M; online it's drifted toward pure decoration.
What 〽️ means
A yellow 'M' like symbol characterized with shorter beginning and mid strokes and a downwardly extending final stroke. This symbol is highlighted with a dark outline.
The 〽️ Part Alternation Mark emoji is more than just a stylized 'M'. It could signify a logo, apart from representing the Japanese symbolic jargon for the beginning of a vocal section in its cultural and traditional music.
How and when to use it
- 'Vocals' could mean a lot of things. If you're talking about the 'part' when one starts speaking or voicing out themselves, then too, you could use 〽️. Like, "Enough of this silence. It's time we raise a revolution 〽️".
- Much like a cue for a singer to begin his/her singing, 〽️ may also signify the 'beginning' of something. For example, "Throwback to the moment my life stepped into a whole new phase of bliss 〽️",
- However, 〽️ would have more character if that 'something' mentioned in the previous point involves vocalization in any form. For instance, "That was the first time I ever spoke about how I felt 〽️ and I realized, not many are worth that space".
- Given its 'brand logo' properties, you could use 〽️ as a way of 'branding' something'. It could be an inclusion to your social media profile name, to your status, or even as a way of saying, "This is OURS and ours alone 〽️".
Other Names
- 〽️ Part Alternation
- 〽️ Vocals
- 〽️ Japanese Musical Punctuation
- 〽️ M
- 〽️ Yellow M
- 〽️ Mc Donald's
- 〽️ Traditional Japanese Music Symbol
- 〽️ Start Singing
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › other-symbol
- Codepoints
U+303D U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:part_alternation_mark:GitHub- Keywords
- alternation, mark, part
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 〽️ Part Alternation Mark or Face with Bags Under Eyes?