U+266C "♬" Beamed Sixteenth Notes Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♬
U+266C "♬" Beamed Sixteenth Notes is a musical symbol representing two sixteenth notes connected by a double beam, commonly used in sheet music notation to indicate a rapid, rhythmic pattern typically played with a quick, light articulation. In digital contexts, it often conveys music, sound, a melodic mood, or a sense of lively or upbeat energy, functioning as a popular emoticon or icon in messaging and social media to express that someone is listening to music or that a song is playing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+266C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Beamed Sixteenth Notes |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Barred Sixteenth 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x266C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000266C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u266c |