U+266A "♪" Eighth Note Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+266A "♪" Eighth Note is a musical symbol used in digital text to represent a single note played for an eighth of the duration of a whole note in standard musical notation. It features a filled-in oval note head with a single straight stem attached to its right side, and it may or may not include a curved flag depending on the font style. This character is commonly employed in informal contexts such as song lyrics, text messages, or social media posts to indicate singing, music, or a cheerful tone, and it belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Unicode standard. Its widespread availability across platforms makes it a versatile tool for expressing musical concepts without needing specialized notation software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+266A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Eighth 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 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x266A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000266A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u266a |