Eighth Note
On Windows, hold Alt and type 13 on the numeric keypad to insert eighth note.
- Alt code
- Alt+13
- HTML entity
- ♪
- Unicode
- U+266A
About this symbol
In British English this note is a quaver; in American English it is an eighth note, because it lasts an eighth as long as a whole note. Two or more quavers next to each other are usually joined by a beam, as in ♫.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- EIGHTH NOTE
- Also called
- Quaver
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Musical symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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