Music Symbols

Music symbols to copy and paste — 136 of them on this page, and one tap copies any of them straight to your clipboard. No highlighting, no long-press menu, no sign-up. Use the search box to find a symbol by name, or right-click (long-press on mobile) to stack several into the combo tray and copy the whole decoration at once.

Music symbols to copy and paste — notes, clefs and now-playing bars
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Most Used

The music symbols people copy most often — start here.

Single Symbols

One character each. These paste cleanly into any name or bio.

Combos & Decorations

Ready-made decorations. Tap once to copy the whole string.

The four notes everyone uses

♪ is an eighth note, ♫ is a beamed pair, ♬ is a beamed pair of sixteenths and ♩ is a quarter note. In practice nobody chooses between them on musical grounds — they pick whichever shape looks right. All four are text characters, so they follow your font colour and size.

Now-playing bars and progress lines

The little Spotify-style widgets you see in bios are not images. They are built from block characters: ▬, ▮, ▯, █, ▒, plus playback marks ◁◁ ▐▐ ▷▷. Copy one from this page and edit the position of the marker to taste.

They are more fragile than they look — a proportional font can make the bar slightly uneven — but on most social platforms they render exactly as intended.

Notation symbols

For actual musical notation there is a fuller set here: the treble clef 𝄞, sharps ♯, flats ♭, naturals ♮ and rests. These are genuinely useful when you need to write about music in a plain text field where you cannot use a score editor. Note that ♯ is not the same character as the hash #, even though they look similar.

Frequently asked questions

Can I put a music note in my Spotify playlist name?

Yes. Spotify accepts these characters in playlist titles and descriptions, and they display on desktop, web and mobile.

How do I make a now-playing progress bar?

Copy one of the ready-made bars on this page and move the marker character to wherever you want the playhead. They are built from repeated block characters, so you can lengthen or shorten them freely.

Is ♯ the same as the hash symbol?

No. The sharp ♯ has slanted horizontal strokes and vertical uprights; the hash # is the opposite. They are separate characters and search treats them differently.

Do music symbols work on all devices?

The four common notes and the clefs do. The wider notation block, especially the extended rests and ornaments, has patchier support on Android.

Popular music symbols and what they are called

The hardest part of finding music symbols is that most people have no name for the character they are looking for. Here are ten of the most-copied music symbols on this page with their official Unicode names, so the search box — here or anywhere else — actually finds them next time.

  • ♪ — Eighth Note
  • ♬ — Beamed Sixteenth Notes
  • ♯ — Music Sharp Sign
  • ♩ — Quarter Note
  • ♫ — Beamed Eighth Notes
  • 𝄞 — Musical Symbol G Clef
  • ♭ — Music Flat Sign
  • ♮ — Music Natural Sign
  • 𝄀 — Musical Symbol Single Barline
  • 𝄁 — Musical Symbol Double Barline

Checking music symbols before you commit to them

Every character here is defined by the Unicode standard, which fixes what a character means but not how it is drawn. That is left to whichever font the reading device happens to use, which is why the same symbol can look rounder on an iPhone than on Android, and why a rarely-supported one shows as an empty box. If you want to check where a particular character comes from, the official Unicode character charts list every block.

In practice the rule is simple: the older and more common the character, the safer it is. If a decoration is going somewhere you cannot easily edit later — a username, a printed document, a shared profile — paste it into a message to yourself on a second device first and see what arrives.

Everything on this page is free to use. The music symbols here are ordinary Unicode characters rather than images or a font you have to install, which is why they copy and paste cleanly between apps, survive being sent in a message, and cost you nothing to use commercially. Tap any of the music symbols above whenever you need one.

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