List of Musical Symbols - Musical Symbols As Text

Musical Symbols As Text

Most unicode fonts support the following musical symbols:

Code Character Description
♩ quarter note
♪ eighth note
♫ beamed eighth notes
♬ beamed sixteenth notes
♭ music flat sign
♮ music natural sign
♯ music sharp sign

For other unicode symbols see the list of Unicode characters - Musical symbols, although many unicode fonts do not support these. There are many specialist non-unicode music fonts.

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