U+2669 "♩" Quarter Note Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♩
U+2669 "♩" Quarter Note is a musical symbol representing a note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note in standard time signatures. It features a filled black oval notehead attached to a single vertical stem, with no flag or beam, making it one of the most fundamental rhythm symbols in Western musical notation. In Unicode, it falls under the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and is primarily used in digital contexts to denote music, sound, or rhythmic time, often appearing in sheet music encoding, educational materials, or casual text-based musical representations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2669 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Quarter Note |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ♩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ♩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x99 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2669 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002669 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2669 |