Eighth Note

U+266A

About Eighth Note

Eighth Note is the Unicode character ♪ at codepoint U+266A in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Eighth Note

To use the Eighth Note symbol (♪) in HTML, insert the entity ♪ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ♪ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\266A';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u266A' evaluates to ♪. In Python source, write '\u266A'.

The character encodes to E2 99 AA as UTF-8 bytes and 266A as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9834.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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