I’m an Electronic Organ Player and have to face a lot of symbol like this, but I have no idea about how to make it in dorico. Help me😭
Welcome to the forum, @JayChan!
I’m afraid mine is only a partial answer:
The text in a box is fairly straightforward to make as Staff-attached Text (shift + x). I found the encircled 2 symbol in my font (in this demo, Arial), then set the text to have a border:
I hope someone else comes along to show you (and me!) how to add the arrow symbol on the left.
I would recommend creating this in Illustrator and exporting as an SVG. Then you can import it as a new Playing Technique.
I think we have made a correct step, but the arrow is actually the hardest question🥹thank you so much
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yeah, I’m on the way to Illustrator, thanks for your help 
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I wish drawing simple shapes was easier in Dorico, but quite surprisingly it’s easier to draw different lines with arrows than basic boxes (ask anyone who writes aleatoric music, there are threads and threads of workarounds just to draw a box lol).
For an arrow with a line that points right, it’s “easy” enough to edit and create a custom line from the vertical line edit menu (pencil icon at the bottom left beneath vertical in the lines panel).
I duplicated the basic vertical arrow with an arrowhead, and then for “start cap” selected right pointing axis-aligned hook. The hooks by default are quite small though, so then I opened the line annotation editor and under hooks, duplicated that one and named it longer, changing the length to ~4 (unfortunately Dorico won’t let you change this length in engrave mode by dragging it out, you’d always have to edit the length from this menu).
I also went into the arrowhead and made it a little smaller, as your reference appears to have a propotionally small arrowhead.
The fun isn’t over yet (haha) – first as I just discovered you must add an arrow to a selected note of music (doesn’t work with a selected rest, this is news to me, I’d think educators in particular might need lines and boxes for all kinds of reasons where music doesn’t exist). So I add the arrow to a note and it looks like this:
Next pop over to Engrave mode where you can drag the arrow down to wherever you want, and adjust its height (but again, apparently you can’t drag out the right hook!) Result:
It might be easier still to do everything in Illustrator, but the advantage here is you can adjust height within Dorico. Project attached!
arrow with right hook.dorico (432.9 KB)
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haha，it’s looks very nice, thank u so much ! 
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At the end，I also find a way to solve it。I create a Arrow.svg file and the set it as a playing technique,
then I create a paragraph style which is always with a border so I can change the text whenever. The result is looks like this.
All I have to do is make some simple moves. I really enjoy the process of being a scientist at dorico lol
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