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Music note symbol

U+266A

A single eighth note. It is a common way to show that text is sung or that music is playing in subtitles.

Official name: EIGHTH NOTE
Unicode block: Miscellaneous Symbols
Added in: Unicode 1.1
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UTF-8 bytes: E2 99 AA
Keywords: eighth, music, note, song, sound, melody
Keyboard: Windows: hold Alt, type 13 on the number pad
Categories: Music

The Unicode standard defines this character, but your device’s fonts decide how it looks, so it may differ on other screens.

Data: Unicode 16.0, Emoji 16.0.