Musical Symbol Half Note
Part of Music Notation Symbols
Musical Symbol Half Note has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- 𝅗𝅥
- Unicode
- U+1D15E
About this symbol
The half note, or minim, lasts half as long as a whole note. Its British name comes from the Latin minima, the smallest, because in medieval music it was the shortest note; composers kept inventing quicker ones.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MUSICAL SYMBOL HALF NOTE
- Also called
- Minim
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Musical Symbols
- Unicode group
- Notes
- Added in
- Unicode 3.1 (2001)
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