what is a coda

A coda has different meanings in different contexts. In music, a coda is a passage that brings a piece to an end, and it may be as simple as a few measures or as complex as an entire section). It is used to provide a special ending for the final verse of a song and is encoded in the Musical Symbols block of Unicode as U+1D10C MUSICAL SYMBOL CODA). In the deaf community, CODA stands for "child of deaf adult(s)" and typically refers to a hearing person who has a deaf parent or parents. This term represents all hearing people who have a deaf mother or father, or even both, and they are part of a tight-knit community that mixes their deaf culture and identity with the rest of the hearing world. The term and the community received a lot of attention, mainly because of the movie “CODA”, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2022. Being a CODA carries unique life experiences and forms a close bond within the deaf culture.