Quarter Note
Quarter 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+2669
About this symbol
In British English this note is a crotchet, from the Old French crochet, a little hook. Americans call it a quarter note, because it lasts a quarter as long as a whole note. It descends from the semiminima of medieval notation.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- QUARTER NOTE
- Also called
- Crotchet
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Musical symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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