Technical information

Symbol
NameQuarter note
Unicode numberU+2669
CategoryNotes
DescriptionThe Unicode character ♩, or U+2669, is known as the "Quarter Note". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This symbol is widely used in musical notation to represent a note that is played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note. The quarter note is the most common rhythmic value in Western music and is typically shown as a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem.

Encoding

HTML Entity♩
HTML Entity (hex)♩
URL Escape Code%E2%99%A9
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x99 0xA9
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011001:10101001
UTF-160x2669
UTF-320x00002669

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2669"
CSS Code\2669
JavaScript"\u2669"
Perl\x{2669}
Python 2u"\u2669"
Python 3\u2669
Ruby\u{2669}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ♩ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

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HTML Forms and Input

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input-group
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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9833;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2669";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
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References