U+1D160 "𝅘𝅥𝅮" Musical Symbol Eighth Note Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝅘𝅥𝅮
U+1D160 "𝅘𝅥𝅮" Musical Symbol Eighth Note is a standardized glyph within the Musical Symbols block, specifically designed to represent a single eighth note in Western musical notation. This character is used in digital text and web environments to denote a note played for half the duration of a quarter note, typically appearing as a filled oval notehead with a single stem and a curved flag. Its inclusion in Unicode allows musicians, composers, and software developers to accurately encode and display musical scores or rhythmic patterns in plain text, ensuring cross platform compatibility without relying on proprietary fonts or images.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D160 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Musical Symbol Eighth Note |
| Block | Musical Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "𝅘𝅥" U+1D15F Musical Symbol Quarter Note "𝅮" U+1D16E Musical Symbol Combining Flag-1 |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝅘𝅥𝅮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝅘𝅥𝅮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x85 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDD60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D160 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udd60 |