Alt Code Shortcuts for Music Symbols

Music symbols include various instruments and musical notes. Unicode has more than 200 musical related symbols. However, you can hardly insert less than 25 symbols on your documents. Remaining symbols are not supported in documents like Word or PowerPoint though they will display on browsers. You can insert these supported symbols on your documents using alt key on your keyboard. Here is a complete list of alt code shortcuts to insert music symbols on Windows based Office documents like Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

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Alt Code Shortcuts for Music Symbols

Below is the list of the music symbol shortcuts you can type using decimal and hexadecimal codes with alt key.

1. Insert Music Symbols in Windows

There are two ways to insert music symbols with keyboard shortcuts in Windows based computers.

1.1. Using Alt + Decimal Code Method

Press and hold one of the alt keys and then type the numbers using numeric pad on your keyboard. Example: Alt + 9836 = ♬.

1.2. Using Alt + X Hexadecimal Code Method

Type the code and then hold alt key and press “x”. Example: 1F3B8 + Alt + X = 🎸. This method will only work on Word documents.

2. Typing Music Emoji Symbol

Some Windows computers do not support the above shortcuts. Also, MacBook supports only 4 digits hexadecimal codes with option key like option + 266B. You can’t use 5 digits hexadecimal codes in MacBook. Fortunately, most of these music symbols are part of Unicode emoji that you can insert without keyboard shortcuts.

2.1. Insert Music Emoji in Windows

Follow the below instructions in Windows 10 or 11 based computers.

• Press “Win Logo + Semicolon” or “Win Logo + Dot” keys.
• This will open emoji panel as a pop-up.
• Type “music” to filter all music instrument symbols.
• Click on the symbol you need to insert on your document.

Unfortunately, emoji panel is not available in Windows 7 operating system.

2.2. Insert Music Emoji in Mac

As mentioned, you can use 4 digits hexadecimal codes in MacBook by changing the input method to Unicode Hex Input. For example, option + 266A will produce eight note symbol like ♪. Follow the below instructions to insert other emoji symbols.

• Press “Command + Control + Space” to open Character Viewer app.
• Alternatively, you can go to “Edit > Symbols & Emoji” menu from any of the app’s menu bar.
• Type “music” in the search box to filter all music related symbols.
• Click on the symbol to insert on your document.

3. Insert Music Symbols in HTML

If you want to insert these symbols in HTML, you can either use decimal codes or hexadecimal codes in the below example format.

<span>&#127929;</span>
<span>&#x1F3B9;</span>

4. Music Symbol Images

4.1. Music Symbols Shortcuts Cheatsheet

Use the below image for offline reference to check all music symbol shortcuts. You can right click and save as the image to your computer.

4.2. Downloadable Music Symbol Images

If you are looking for the images of music symbols, right click on any of the symbol and download to your computer.

4.3. Additional Music Instrument Images