♫
Beamed Eighth Notes
- Unicode
- U+266B
- Category
- Musical
- HTML Entity
- ♫
- CSS
- \266B
The ♫ (Beamed Eighth Notes) symbol represents a pair of musical eighth notes connected by a horizontal beam. Originating from standard music notation, it was added to Unicode to allow text-based representation of music, singing, or audio playback. It remains widely used across social media, text messages, and lyric transcriptions to playfully bookend song lyrics or set a musical mood.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+14
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "beamed eighth notes"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 266B
- HTML
- ♫
In Programming
While rarely used as a functional operator, the ♫ symbol is frequently embedded in string literals for audio player interfaces, console output to indicate a sound event, or as an icon in text-based games.
Tags
beamed
beamed notes
double note
melody
music
music emoji alternative
music lyric symbol
music pair
notes
song
song text decoration
sound
unicode beamed notes
♫ symbol