How to type Beamed Sixteenth Notes
To type Beamed Sixteenth Notes (♬), press Alt + 9836 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ♬ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+266C directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 266c on Linux, or 266c then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Beamed Sixteenth Notes
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+266C
- Windows
- Alt + 9836 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9836 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ♬ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+266C | BEAMED SIXTEENTH NOTES |
Other symbols
♬ lives in the Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600-U+26FF), weather, astrology, religion, games and a wide miscellany. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
What Unicode says about Beamed Sixteenth Notes
The standard recognises ♬ under another name as well: beamed semiquavers. That is a formal alias, not a nickname, which is why it turns up in other people's documentation for the same codepoint.
How Beamed Sixteenth Notes behaves in software
♬ is East Asian Ambiguous: one column in a Western locale and two in a CJK one. That is why a table that lines up on your machine can break on somebody else's, with no change to the text at all. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
Every way to write Beamed Sixteenth Notes
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+266C |
| Decimal | 9836 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 AC |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 6C |
| HTML entity | ♬ |
| HTML numeric | ♬ or ♬ |
| CSS | \266C |
| JavaScript | \u266C |
| Python | \u266C |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%AC |
| SVG | 266C.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ♬ arrives as ♬
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 99 AC are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.