Beamed Eighth Notes
On Windows, hold Alt and type 14 on the numeric keypad to insert beamed eighth notes.
- Alt code
- Alt+14
- HTML entity
- ♫
- Unicode
- U+266B
About this symbol
♫ shows two quavers, or eighth notes, joined by a beam across their stems. Beams group notes so a musician can read the beat at a glance: in 4/4 time quavers are usually beamed in twos or fours, and in 6/8 time in threes.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BEAMED EIGHTH NOTES
- Also called
- Beamed quavers
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Musical symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- 🎝 Beamed Descending Musical Notes U+1F39D🎶 Multiple Musical Notes U+1F3B6
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