U+266B "♫" Beamed Eighth Notes Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♫
U+266B "♫" Beamed Eighth Notes is a typographic symbol representing two eighth notes connected by a single horizontal beam, commonly used in musical notation to indicate a pair of notes played in quick succession within a beat. In digital communication, it has become a popular emoticon for music, singing, or a cheerful, rhythmic mood, often appearing in text messages, social media posts, and song lyrics to convey happiness, a musical atmosphere, or the act of listening to tunes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+266B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Beamed Eighth Notes |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Barred Eighth Notes |
| 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x266B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000266B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u266b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |