U+266C "" Beamed Sixteenth Notes Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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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
Name
Beamed Sixteenth Notes
Unicode 1.0 Name
Barred Sixteenth Notes

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