♭
Flat Sign
- Unicode
- U+266D
- Category
- Musical
- HTML Entity
- ♭
- CSS
- \266D
The flat sign (♭) is a standard musical symbol indicating that a note should be lowered in pitch by one semitone. Found in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, it sits alongside the sharp (♯) and natural (♮) signs. While essential for digital sheet music and music theory, it frequently pops up on social media when people discuss tuning instruments, singing off-key, or sharing chord progressions.
How to Type
- Windows
- Win+. then search "flat" or Alt+9837
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "flat"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 266d
- HTML
- ♭ or ♭
In Programming
In software development, the flat symbol is used strictly as a text character in music notation tools, audio processing software, and digital chord charts. It has no syntactic function in programming languages.
Tags
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