Eighth Note Symbol

Copy ♪, the single eighth note, or ♫, the beamed pair, each with its code point and Alt code.

Eighth Note Symbol

♪Eighth noteU+266AReady to copy

26 eighth note signs and notes. Tap any value to copy it.

26 eighth note signs and notes. A character and its name both copy the character. A code copies the code.
Character	Name	Code point	Alt code	HTML	LaTeX
	U+266A. A filled note head on a stem with one flag: one eighth of a whole note. Unicode's other name for it is quaver. Alt+13 on a number pad, &sung; in HTML and \textmusicalnote in LaTeX text.
	U+266B. Two eighth notes joined by one beam in place of their flags. Unicode's other name for it is beamed quavers. Alt+14 on a number pad; a web page writes ♫.
	U+266C. Two notes under a double beam: sixteenth notes, each half as long as an eighth note. Unicode's other name for it is beamed semiquavers. It is in neither Alt code table.
	U+1F3B5. An emoji, generally drawn as an eighth note; Unicode cross-refers it to ♪. Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010).
	Made of U+266A and a period. A dot adds half a note's value, so a dotted eighth note lasts as long as three sixteenth notes.
	Made of two U+266A. Two eighth notes that each keep a flag, the way notes sung to separate syllables were traditionally written. Together they last one quarter note.
	Made of two digits and a slash. Six eighth notes to the bar, most often felt as two beats of three. The lower 8 stands for the eighth note.
	U+2669. The quarter note: the same note head and stem with no flag, twice as long as an eighth note. It is in neither Alt code table.
	Made of U+266A, the equals sign and U+266C. One eighth note lasts as long as two sixteenth notes.
	Made of three U+266A. Three eighth notes: one beat of 6/8 time, as long as a dotted quarter note.
	Made of two U+266B. Four eighth notes in two beamed pairs, as long as one half note.
	Made of two digits and a slash. Three eighth notes to the bar.
	Made of two digits and a slash. Four eighth notes to the bar.
	Made of two digits and a slash. Nine eighth notes to the bar, typically beamed in groups of three.
	Made of three digits and a slash. Twelve eighth notes to the bar, typically beamed in groups of three.
	U+1F3B6. An emoji of several notes, which Unicode cross-refers to ♫. Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010).
	U+1F39C. A picture of beamed notes that rise, and not an emoji. Unicode's note: always ascending, unlike 266C. Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014).
	U+1F39D. A picture of beamed notes that fall, and not an emoji; Unicode cross-refers it to ♫. Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014).
	U+1D160. The eighth note of the Musical Symbols block, which Unicode cross-refers to ♪. It is built from the quarter note, U+1D15F, and one flag, U+1D16E. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D13E. A silence as long as an eighth note. Unicode's other name for it is quaver rest. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D161. A sixteenth note, half as long as an eighth note: the quarter note, U+1D15F, and the two-flag mark, U+1D16F. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D162. A thirty-second note, a quarter as long as an eighth note: the quarter note, U+1D15F, and the three-flag mark, U+1D170. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D1BF. A fusa of mensural notation, the old note value that the eighth note is the equivalent of. This is the white form, built on the minima, U+1D1BB. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D1C0. The black form of the fusa, built on the black minima, U+1D1BC. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D1E6. The eighth note of Kievan notation with its stem down, by its Unicode name. Added in Unicode 8.0 (2015).
	U+1D1E7. The eighth note of Kievan notation with its stem up, by its Unicode name. Added in Unicode 8.0 (2015).

Next step ♩ and tempo marks such as ♩=60

How it works

The eighth note symbol is ♪, U+266A: a filled note head on a stem with one flag. For eighth notes in a pair the symbol is ♫, U+266B, a separate character.

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Single or beamed

A single eighth note always carries a flag. Two or more in a row are usually joined by a beam in place of the flags, which is what ♫ draws. One beam means eighth notes. The double beam of ♬ means sixteenth notes, each half as long.

Why only two have Alt codes

♪ and ♫ sat at codes 13 and 14 of the PC character set of the early 1980s, and the Alt codes still follow it. ♬ was never in that set. The Musical Symbols block, added in 2001 for music notation on computers, has an eighth note of its own, U+1D160, and no beamed pair.

With a Compose key, ♪ is Compose, #, then e, and ♫ is Compose, #, then E.

Questions and answers

How do I type an eighth note symbol on a keyboard?

No key carries ♪. On a number pad, hold Alt, type 13 and let go; Alt+14 types ♫. In a web page write &sung; for ♪ and ♫ for ♫.

Is the 8th note symbol the same as a quaver?

Yes. Quaver is the British name for the 8th note, and Unicode lists it as the other name of ♪. The note lasts one eighth of a whole note, half of a quarter note.

Is there an eighth note emoji?

🎵, Musical note, is the emoji generally drawn as an eighth note, and 🎶 shows several notes. ♪ and ♫ themselves are plain text characters and not emoji.

All 26 eighth note signs and notes

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Beamed eighth notes U+266B. Two eighth notes joined by one beam in place of their flags. Unicode's other name for it is beamed quavers. Alt+14 on a number pad; a web page writes ♫.
Beamed sixteenth notes U+266C. Two notes under a double beam: sixteenth notes, each half as long as an eighth note. Unicode's other name for it is beamed semiquavers. It is in neither Alt code table.
Dotted eighth note Made of U+266A and a period. A dot adds half a note's value, so a dotted eighth note lasts as long as three sixteenth notes.
Eighth note U+266A. A filled note head on a stem with one flag: one eighth of a whole note. Unicode's other name for it is quaver. Alt+13 on a number pad, &sung; in HTML and \textmusicalnote in LaTeX text.
Eighth notes, each with a flag Made of two U+266A. Two eighth notes that each keep a flag, the way notes sung to separate syllables were traditionally written. Together they last one quarter note.
Musical note U+1F3B5. An emoji, generally drawn as an eighth note; Unicode cross-refers it to ♪. Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010).
Six-eight time Made of two digits and a slash. Six eighth notes to the bar, most often felt as two beats of three. The lower 8 stands for the eighth note.

Show all 26 eighth note signs and notes (19 more)

Plain text notes 1

Quarter note U+2669. The quarter note: the same note head and stem with no flag, twice as long as an eighth note. It is in neither Alt code table.

Dotted, grouped 3

Four eighth notes Made of two U+266B. Four eighth notes in two beamed pairs, as long as one half note.
One eighth equals two sixteenths Made of U+266A, the equals sign and U+266C. One eighth note lasts as long as two sixteenth notes.
Three eighth notes Made of three U+266A. Three eighth notes: one beat of 6/8 time, as long as a dotted quarter note.

Time signatures 4

Four-eight time Made of two digits and a slash. Four eighth notes to the bar.
Nine-eight time Made of two digits and a slash. Nine eighth notes to the bar, typically beamed in groups of three.
Three-eight time Made of two digits and a slash. Three eighth notes to the bar.
Twelve-eight time Made of three digits and a slash. Twelve eighth notes to the bar, typically beamed in groups of three.

Pictures 3

Beamed ascending musical notes U+1F39C. A picture of beamed notes that rise, and not an emoji. Unicode's note: always ascending, unlike 266C. Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014).
Beamed descending musical notes U+1F39D. A picture of beamed notes that fall, and not an emoji; Unicode cross-refers it to ♫. Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014).
Multiple musical notes U+1F3B6. An emoji of several notes, which Unicode cross-refers to ♫. Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010).

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Musical symbol eighth note U+1D160. The eighth note of the Musical Symbols block, which Unicode cross-refers to ♪. It is built from the quarter note, U+1D15F, and one flag, U+1D16E. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol eighth rest U+1D13E. A silence as long as an eighth note. Unicode's other name for it is quaver rest. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol fusa black U+1D1C0. The black form of the fusa, built on the black minima, U+1D1BC. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol fusa white U+1D1BF. A fusa of mensural notation, the old note value that the eighth note is the equivalent of. This is the white form, built on the minima, U+1D1BB. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol Kievan eighth note stem down U+1D1E6. The eighth note of Kievan notation with its stem down, by its Unicode name. Added in Unicode 8.0 (2015).
Musical symbol Kievan eighth note stem up U+1D1E7. The eighth note of Kievan notation with its stem up, by its Unicode name. Added in Unicode 8.0 (2015).
Musical symbol sixteenth note U+1D161. A sixteenth note, half as long as an eighth note: the quarter note, U+1D15F, and the two-flag mark, U+1D16F. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol thirty-second note U+1D162. A thirty-second note, a quarter as long as an eighth note: the quarter note, U+1D15F, and the three-flag mark, U+1D170. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).

How this list was compiled: Names, and the code points they belong to, are checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and printed in sentence case. The other names Unicode gives a character, its notes and its cross-references quote NamesList.txt of the same version (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt), and what a character is built from is its decomposition in UnicodeData.txt; the version a character was added in is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), which characters are emoji is from emoji-data.txt of the same version, and the years are from https://www.unicode.org/history/publicationdates.html. Alt codes are from the code page 437 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP437.TXT), the PC graphics table for codes 1 to 31 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/IBMGRAPH.TXT) and the code page 1252 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT); a character in none of them has no Alt code here. That some apps, rich text editors in particular, read an Alt code from 256 to 65,535 as a Unicode code point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code. HTML entity names are from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json. LaTeX macros are listed only when LaTeX's own fontdef.dtx or ltoutenc.dtx (https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/tree/develop/base) or the amssymb source (https://ctan.org/pkg/amsfonts) defines them, matched to a code point through unicode-math-table.tex (https://github.com/latex3/unicode-math). Compose sequences are from the X.org en_US.UTF-8 Compose file (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/blob/master/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre). What an eighth note looks like and lasts, the word quaver, its flag, the eighth rest, beaming in groups of three, codes 13 and 14 of the PC character set, the emoji generally drawn as an eighth note, what the Musical Symbols block is for and the fusa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_note. That a beam stands in for the flags, one beam for each, and that vocal music traditionally beamed only the notes sung to one syllable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_(music). The sixteenth note and its two flags: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_note. What a dot adds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_note. The lower numeral of a time signature, 4/8, the compound signatures 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 and the two beats of 6/8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signature. All read as wikitext on 2026-10-14 and restated in this site's own words. The rows of the last group stand outside the Basic Multilingual Plane or are pictures few fonts hold, and a device with no font for one draws an empty box. The Start here group, the made rows and the order are this site's own choice. Licence: own work (facts from the Unicode Character Database, Unicode License v3, and from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in this site's own words; aliases and notes marked as Unicode's are quoted from NamesList.txt, Copyright © 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc., https://www.unicode.org/license.txt)