Beamed eighth notes

Meaning and uses

Two eighth notes joined by a beam. It is the most common music symbol in bios and status lines, and it signals that a song is playing or that you love music.

Unicode details

♫ is the Unicode character named BEAMED EIGHTH NOTES, code point U+266B, in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ♫

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 266B and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ♫.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “beamed eighth notes”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 266b, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ♫. In a CSS content property, use "\266B".