U+2669 QUARTER NOTE: ♩ – Unicode

U+2669 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2600 to U+26FF Miscellaneous Symbols in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as crotchet.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2669 behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

A quarter note (American) or crotchet ( KROTCH-it)"Collins Dictionary". (British) is a musical note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). Quarter notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem. The stem usually points upwards if it is below the middle line of the staff, and downwards if it is on or above the middle line. An upward stem is placed on the right side of the notehead, a downward stem is placed on the left (see image). The Unicode symbol is U+2669 (♩).
A quarter rest (or crotchet rest) denotes a silence of the same duration as a quarter note. It typically appears as the symbol , or occasionally, as the older symbol .

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	9833
UTF-8	E2 99 A9
UTF-16	26 69
UTF-32	00 00 26 69
URL-Quoted	%E2%99%A9
HTML-Escape	♩
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â©
alias	crotchet
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes)	A2 DB
L^AT_EX	\quarternote
Adobe Glyph List	quarternote
digraph	Md

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Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	QUARTER NOTE
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category	Other Symbol
Script	Common
Bidirectional Category	Other Neutral
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Quarter Note
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Quarter Note
Lowercase Mapping	Quarter Note
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Quarter Note
Uppercase Mapping	Quarter Note
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Quarter Note
Titlecase Mapping	Quarter Note
Case Folding	Quarter Note
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✘
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✔
FC NFKC Closure	Quarter Note
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✘
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Quarter Note
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✔
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✘
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Quarter Note
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Quarter Note
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	U