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Music Note Symbols Copy & Paste

Music note symbols to copy and paste: quarter notes, beamed notes, flats, sharps and music emoji.

About music note symbols

The text notes ♪ and ♫ (U+266A/U+266B) are single and beamed eighth notes from Unicode 1.1 — the "song stuck in my head" markers that predate emoji by two decades. With ♩ (quarter note) and ♬ (beamed sixteenths) plus the flat/sharp/natural signs (♭♯♮), you can decorate a music bio without a single colour emoji.

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between ♪ and ♫?+

♪ is one eighth note; ♫ is two joined by a beam. Musically that's a rhythmic difference, decoratively it's just "one note" vs "a pair" — ♫ reads fuller in a bio line.

Why use text notes instead of 🎵?+

🎵 is a colour emoji that can't be restyled. ♪♫ are text characters that inherit your font colour and size, which is why lyric pages and music usernames have used them since long before emoji existed.

Can I write actual music with these?+

Only roughly — ♩♪♫♬ give you note shapes and ♭♮♯ give you accidentals, but there's no staff or rhythm encoding. For decoration and vibe they're perfect; for notation you'd want real sheet-music software.