Eighth Note
U+266A♪Symbol · decimal ♪
Music Symbols Copy & Paste
Browse 252 music symbols without turning your words into an image. The Musical Symbols block supplies most of them. 248 render as text and 4 as emoji.
Copy music symbols
252 characters and sequences. One tap copies the real code points.
That search returns nothing in this set.
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Music Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
Here are 12 representative rows out of 252. Where two entries look the same, the name settles it. The HTML references beside each name reproduce the code-point sequence character for character.
Musical Symbol Short Barline
U+1D105𝄅Symbol · decimal 𝄅
Musical Symbol Six-String Fretboard
U+1D11C𝄜Symbol · decimal 𝄜
Musical Symbol Ottava Bassa
U+1D137𝄷Symbol · decimal 𝄷
Musical Symbol Triangle Notehead Down White
U+1D14E𝅎Symbol · decimal 𝅎
Musical Symbol Combining Stem
U+1D165𝅥Combining mark · decimal 𝅥
Musical Symbol Combining Staccato
U+1D17C𝅼Combining mark · decimal 𝅼
Musical Symbol Decrescendo
U+1D193𝆓Symbol · decimal 𝆓
Musical Symbol Combining Down Bow
U+1D1AA𝆪Combining mark · decimal 𝆪
Musical Symbol Fusa Black
U+1D1C0𝆺𝅥𝅯Symbol · decimal 𝆺𝅥𝅯
Musical Symbol Climacus
U+1D1D7𝇗Symbol · decimal 𝇗
Musical Keyboard
U+1F3B9🎹Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🎹
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Music symbols by notes, clefs, accidentals and notation
Notes, clefs and accidentals for writing about music in plain text, or for decorating a byline.
Music characters range from familiar notes to specialist notation. A decorative note can work in a caption, while formal scores require a music-aware font and layout system. Stored on this page are 252 entries, split 249 single characters to 3 sequences.
You will meet Eighth Note, Musical Symbol Short Barline, Musical Symbol Six-String Fretboard, Musical Symbol Ottava Bassa among these. Measured over the full set, the leading name patterns are Musical Symbol Combining (35), Musical Symbol Ornament (11), Musical Symbol Kievan (11). Single-character values span U+00B0 to U+1F3BC.
Browse music symbols by type
Notes and rests
68 entries
Clefs
12 entries
Accidentals
14 entries
Score notation
154 entries
Other related forms
4 entries
Counted from the stored set
The range these music symbols occupy
Counted across U+00B0 to U+1F3BC, the general-category split is symbol 209, combining mark 30, format or control 9, letter 1.
Name patterns that repeat
Musical Symbol Combining (35), Musical Symbol Ornament (11), Musical Symbol Kievan (11) lead the name frequencies — measured, not assumed.
Sequence construction
3 entries span more than one code point: 0 with a zero-width joiner, 0 with a variation selector, the longest running to 3 code points.
How to choose the right form
Two look almost the same: Musical Symbol Combining Stem and Musical Symbol Combining Staccato. They are different characters: U+1D165 and U+1D17C. Start with score notation.
It is the biggest group, with 154. Only reach for other related forms when the narrower sense is the point. Colour or no colour is the first choice: 4 emoji, 248 plain.
Always check it in the place it will appear.
These are grouped by what people use them for. Unicode's own categories may split them differently.
205Symbol
Standalone marks that follow your font. 81% here.
30Combining mark
Has no width of its own. 12% here.
9Format or control
Format controls you cannot see but can paste. 4% here.
4Emoji or pictograph
Colour artwork, supplied by the platform. 2% here.
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Music Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
You can copy any of the 252 music symbols below. 154 of them are score notation. Their home in Unicode is the Musical Symbols block. 4 of them are emoji and come out in colour. The other 248 take the colour of the text near them.
Sorted into 5 kinds
Expect notes and rests, clefs and accidentals. 154 sit under score notation.
Which blocks they come from
They come from Musical Symbols (241), Miscellaneous Symbols (7) and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (4). They span U+00B0 to U+1F3BC, so no one font covers them all.
The pair people mix up
Musical Symbol Combining Stem and Musical Symbol Combining Staccato look alike. They are not the same character.
3 entries are sequences
3 use more than one character. Copy the whole thing or it breaks.
Key words and ideas
These words describe the shapes, uses and character families you will meet in this collection.
- Notes and rests
- Clefs
- Accidentals
- Score notation
- Other related forms
- Music
- Note
- Treble
- Clef
- Sharp
- Flat
- Audio
A simple three-step method
- Sorted into 5 kinds: Expect notes and rests, clefs and accidentals. 154 sit under score notation.
- Which blocks they come from: They come from Musical Symbols (241), Miscellaneous Symbols (7) and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (4). They span U+00B0 to U+1F3BC, so no one font covers them all.
- The pair people mix up: Musical Symbol Combining Stem and Musical Symbol Combining Staccato look alike. They are not the same character.
- 3 entries are sequences: 3 use more than one character. Copy the whole thing or it breaks.
What the music symbols inventory actually contains
Every figure below is counted from the 252 entries stored for this page rather than estimated. The characters are drawn from Musical Symbols (241), Miscellaneous Symbols (7) and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (4).
| Group | Entries | Examples | Code points | Usual presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes and rests | 68 | ♪ ♫ ♬ | U+2669–U+266C | Text presentation |
| Clefs | 12 | 𝄞 𝄢 𝄡 | U+1D11E–U+1D122 | Text presentation |
| Accidentals | 14 | ♭ ♮ ♯ | U+266D–U+1D12B | Text presentation |
| Score notation | 154 | 𝄀 𝄁 𝄂 | U+1D100–U+1D104 | Text presentation |
| Other related forms | 4 | ° ø ≠ | U+00B0–U+226D | Text presentation |
Practical note: Presentation is the typical default. A variation selector, a specific font stack, or an application that overrides emoji rendering can change what you see after pasting.
Keep exploring this topic
Compare these choices with writing symbols and aesthetic symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Technical and Math Symbols: Choosing the Correct Character. If one question is enough, read why do specialist music symbols show as boxes?.
Tip: Pair anything decorative with real text. That is what search engines index and what screen readers announce.
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How to use music symbols
Selecting an entry places its exact code points on your clipboard. Paste with Ctrl V, ⌘ V, or the Paste command on mobile.
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Headings, bylines and creative credits
Reach for Eighth Note, and never let it replace a word that matters.
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Music, art and writing captions
Score notation suits music, art and writing captions. Pick one whose stroke weight matches the text around it.
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Short dividers and decorative accents
When creating short dividers and decorative accents, paste the complete entry — several of these are multi-code-point sequences that break if truncated.
Copy-ready music symbols examples for headings, bylines and creative credits
Headings, bylines and creative credits
♪ Music referenceMusic, art and writing captions
♪ ♫ ♬Short dividers and decorative accents
♬ music ♪05
Keyboard entry for music symbols
You do not have to copy. Each code point below doubles as a keyboard code — decimal for a Windows alt code, hexadecimal for Word and macOS.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ♪ | Eighth Note | Alt 9834 | 266A | ♪ |
| 𝄅 | Musical Symbol Short Barline | Not available | 1D105 | 𝄅 |
| 𝄜 | Musical Symbol Six-String Fretboard | Not available | 1D11C | 𝄜 |
| 𝄷 | Musical Symbol Ottava Bassa | Not available | 1D137 | 𝄷 |
| 𝅎 | Musical Symbol Triangle Notehead Down White | Not available | 1D14E | 𝅎 |
| 𝅥 | Musical Symbol Combining Stem | Not available | 1D165 | 𝅥 |
The alt-code route requires a real keypad and cannot address anything above U+FFFF. 237 entries here sit above that ceiling. A further 3 are sequences, which no shortcut reproduces — copy those instead. Each platform's method is spelled out in the keyboard guide.
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How music symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
Most of these live in one place: Musical Symbols holds 96% of them. The rest come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. 248 are plain text and follow your font.
The other 4 are emoji. Your phone or computer paints those in colour. Unicode files the emoji ones under Objects.
3 entries are made of several parts. Copy the whole thing, or it breaks apart. The newest here arrived in Emoji 0.6.
Older phones show a blank box instead.
What travels is the character; what you see is whatever font the destination reaches for. That is why the same music symbol can look heavier on a phone than in a document.
249Single characters
3Sequences
4Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with music symbols
- 1
Using a combining notation mark without its base character.
- 2
Expecting specialist score symbols in a narrow interface font.
- 3
Substituting ♯, # and the number sign as if they were identical.
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Music Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Musical Symbol Combining Stem and Musical Symbol Combining Staccato?+
Different code points, similar shapes. Musical Symbol Combining Stem sits at U+1D165 and Musical Symbol Combining Staccato at U+1D17C, so search, sorting and screen readers treat them as unrelated characters even where they look the same.
What is the HTML code for eighth note?+
♪ is the hexadecimal form and ♪ the decimal one; both render as ♪. On a page that declares UTF-8 you can also just paste the character.
Which music symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+
Look for the 248 non-emoji entries. Those behave like letters — style them, colour them, put them in a heading. The 4 emoji entries are drawn by the operating system instead.
Why does one of these music symbols split apart when I paste it?+
3 entries here are sequences of more than one code point. If the destination does not support the sequence, or if the copy was truncated, the parts render individually. Copy the entry with the button rather than by selecting the characters.
Which Unicode block are these music symbols in?+
Chiefly Musical Symbols, which accounts for 241; the rest come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. Coverage tends to follow the block: long-established ones render nearly everywhere, recent additions do not.
Will these music symbols work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 0.6. Devices that have not received a font update since then will show a blank rectangle instead. Test on a real older device before using a recent character where the meaning matters.
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Learn more about music symbols
Two tools worth knowing about
Creative credits and bylines are the usual home for these characters, and both converters produce headings that suit them.
Old English Text ConverterBuild Fraktur-style text from Unicode mathematical letters and learn where fallback characters are used.Open the text converter →Cursive Text ConverterCreate script-style Unicode text while keeping a plain-text version for names, search and accessibility.Open the text converter →
Pair a music symbol with styled letters in the Symbol Maker. Seven browser-based utilities are collected in the Unicode tools hub, which explains which one fits which job.
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Where this data comes from
These 252 entries are measured, not sampled or approximated. Formal names and categories come straight from the Unicode 17.0 database, with emoji status taken from the published emoji data rather than judged by eye.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data