Music Note Symbols to Copy & Paste
Music notes are not in ASCII — the eighth note ♪ (U+266A) and beamed notes ♫ (U+266B) are Unicode characters from the Miscellaneous Symbols block. They render everywhere as monochrome glyphs. This page covers single and beamed notes, accidentals (sharp, flat, natural), and the clefs, with the code you need to type or embed each one.
How to type a music note on Windows and Mac
On Windows, hold Alt and type 13 on the numeric keypad for ♪, or Alt+14 for ♫ (these come from the legacy code page 437 set). For notes not covered by the short codes, use Character Map and search "note". On a Mac, open the emoji and symbol viewer with Control+Command+Space, search "note" or "music", and double-click to insert ♪, ♫, or the emoji versions. Copy-and-paste from this page works on any device without codes.
Monochrome notes vs emoji notes
There are two families here. The classic ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ are monochrome text symbols that inherit your font color, so they blend into a sentence or username. The emoji 🎵 🎶 render in full color and are better suited to chat and social captions. In HTML, ♪ renders ♪ and ♫ renders ♫. The clefs and emoji notes live above U+FFFF, so in JavaScript they need surrogate pairs or the \u{1D11E} form — for example the treble clef is \u{1D11E}.