Quarter Note Symbol

Copy ♩, the quarter note, alone or in a tempo mark such as ♩=60, with ♪ and ♫ beside it.

Quarter Note Symbol

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

26 quarter 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
	U+2669. A filled note head on a stem with no flag: one quarter of a whole note. Unicode's other name for it is crotchet. It is in neither Alt code table; a web page writes ♩.
	U+266A. One flag on the stem: half as long as a quarter note. Unicode's other name for it is quaver. Alt+13 on a number pad and &sung; in HTML.
	U+266B. Two eighth notes under one beam, which together last as long as one quarter note. Alt+14 on a number pad.
	U+266C. Two notes under a double beam; Unicode's other name is beamed semiquavers. A sixteenth note is a quarter of a quarter note.
	Made of U+2669 and the equals sign. The start of a metronome mark: paste it and type the beats per minute after it.
	Made of U+2669, the equals sign and 60. Sixty quarter-note beats a minute, which is one beat a second.
	Made of U+2669 and a period. A dot after a note adds half its value, so this lasts a quarter note and an eighth note together.
	Made of two U+2669. Together they last as long as one half note.
	Made of U+2669, a period and the equals sign. A metronome mark counted in dotted quarter notes, the beat most often felt in 6/8 time.
	Made of U+266A and the equals sign. A metronome mark counted in eighth notes.
	Made of three U+2669. One bar of 3/4 time: three quarter notes to the bar.
	Made of U+266B, the equals sign and U+2669. Two eighth notes last as long as one quarter note.
	Made of two digits and a slash. The time signature also called common time: four quarter notes to the bar. The lower 4 stands for the quarter note.
	Made of two digits and a slash. Three quarter notes to the bar.
	Made of two digits and a slash. Two quarter notes to the bar.
	U+1F3B5. An emoji, generally drawn as an eighth note. Unicode cross-refers it to ♪, not to the quarter note. Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010).
	U+1F39C. A picture of joined 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 joined notes that fall, and not an emoji. Unicode's note: always descending, unlike 266C. Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014).
	U+1D15F. The quarter note of the Musical Symbols block, which Unicode cross-refers to ♩. It is built from a black notehead, U+1D158, and a stem, U+1D165. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D15E. A hollow note head on a stem: as long as two quarter notes. Unicode's other name for it is minim. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D15D. The whole note, as long as four quarter notes. Unicode's other name for it is semibreve. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D158. The filled note head alone, the first of the two parts of U+1D15F. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D13D. A silence as long as a quarter note. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D1BD. A semiminima of mensural notation, the old note value that the quarter note corresponds to. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D1E4. The quarter note of Kievan notation with its stem down, by its Unicode name. Added in Unicode 8.0 (2015).
	U+1D1E5. The quarter note of Kievan notation with its stem up, by its Unicode name. Added in Unicode 8.0 (2015).

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How it works

The quarter note symbol is ♩, U+2669: a filled note head on a plain stem, called a crotchet in British English. It is in neither Alt code table. Its neighbors ♪ and ♫ are, as Alt+13 and Alt+14.

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What a quarter note lasts

One quarter of a whole note, half of a half note and twice an eighth note. In 4/4 time it is one beat, so ♩=60 on a score asks for one beat a second. A dot after it, ♩., adds half its length again.

Two quarter note characters

♩ sits in the Miscellaneous Symbols block and was already in Unicode 1.1, of 1993. The Musical Symbols block, added in 2001 for music notation on computers, has a quarter note of its own, U+1D15F. A device with no music font draws that one as an empty box.

With a Compose key, ♩ is Compose, #, then q.

Questions and answers

How do I type a quarter note symbol?

No key carries ♩. In a web page write ♩. Apps that read an Alt code above 255 as a code point, rich text editors among them, type it with Alt+9833.

What is the difference between ♩ and ♪?

♩ is a quarter note: a stem with no flag. ♪ is an eighth note, half as long, and its stem carries one flag. ♫ is two eighth notes joined by a beam, which together last one quarter note.

Is there a quarter note emoji?

No. ♩ is a text character and not an emoji. The emoji 🎵, Musical note, is generally drawn as an eighth note, and Unicode cross-refers it to ♪.

All 26 quarter note signs and notes

Start here 8

Beamed eighth notes U+266B. Two eighth notes under one beam, which together last as long as one quarter note. Alt+14 on a number pad.
Beamed sixteenth notes U+266C. Two notes under a double beam; Unicode's other name is beamed semiquavers. A sixteenth note is a quarter of a quarter note.
Dotted quarter note Made of U+2669 and a period. A dot after a note adds half its value, so this lasts a quarter note and an eighth note together.
Eighth note U+266A. One flag on the stem: half as long as a quarter note. Unicode's other name for it is quaver. Alt+13 on a number pad and &sung; in HTML.
Quarter note U+2669. A filled note head on a stem with no flag: one quarter of a whole note. Unicode's other name for it is crotchet. It is in neither Alt code table; a web page writes ♩.
Quarter note equals Made of U+2669 and the equals sign. The start of a metronome mark: paste it and type the beats per minute after it.
Quarter note equals 60 Made of U+2669, the equals sign and 60. Sixty quarter-note beats a minute, which is one beat a second.
Two quarter notes Made of two U+2669. Together they last as long as one half note.

Show all 26 quarter note signs and notes (18 more)

Tempo marks 2

Dotted quarter note equals Made of U+2669, a period and the equals sign. A metronome mark counted in dotted quarter notes, the beat most often felt in 6/8 time.
Eighth note equals Made of U+266A and the equals sign. A metronome mark counted in eighth notes.

Note values 2

Three quarter notes Made of three U+2669. One bar of 3/4 time: three quarter notes to the bar.
Two eighths equal a quarter Made of U+266B, the equals sign and U+2669. Two eighth notes last as long as one quarter note.

Time signatures 3

Four-four time Made of two digits and a slash. The time signature also called common time: four quarter notes to the bar. The lower 4 stands for the quarter note.
Three-four time Made of two digits and a slash. Three quarter notes to the bar.
Two-four time Made of two digits and a slash. Two quarter notes to the bar.

Pictures of notes 3

Beamed ascending musical notes U+1F39C. A picture of joined 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 joined notes that fall, and not an emoji. Unicode's note: always descending, unlike 266C. Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014).
Musical note U+1F3B5. An emoji, generally drawn as an eighth note. Unicode cross-refers it to ♪, not to the quarter note. Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010).

May be an empty box 8

Musical symbol half note U+1D15E. A hollow note head on a stem: as long as two quarter notes. Unicode's other name for it is minim. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol Kievan quarter note stem down U+1D1E4. The quarter note of Kievan notation with its stem down, by its Unicode name. Added in Unicode 8.0 (2015).
Musical symbol Kievan quarter note stem up U+1D1E5. The quarter note of Kievan notation with its stem up, by its Unicode name. Added in Unicode 8.0 (2015).
Musical symbol notehead black U+1D158. The filled note head alone, the first of the two parts of U+1D15F. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol quarter note U+1D15F. The quarter note of the Musical Symbols block, which Unicode cross-refers to ♩. It is built from a black notehead, U+1D158, and a stem, U+1D165. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol quarter rest U+1D13D. A silence as long as a quarter note. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol semiminima white U+1D1BD. A semiminima of mensural notation, the old note value that the quarter note corresponds to. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol whole note U+1D15D. The whole note, as long as four quarter notes. Unicode's other name for it is semibreve. 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), block names are from Blocks.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 (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 a quarter note looks like and lasts, the word crotchet, the quarter rest, the beat of 4/4 time and the semiminima: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_note, with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensural_notation for the note it corresponds to. The eighth note, its flag and beam, the sixteenth note, code pages 13 and 14, the emoji generally drawn as an eighth note and what the Musical Symbols block is for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_note. Beats per minute, the metronome mark and one beat a second at 60: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo. What a dot adds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_note. The lower numeral of a time signature, common time, the quarter notes in a bar of 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 and the dotted quarter beat 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)