♮

Natural Sign

Unicode
U+266E
Category
Musical
HTML Entity
♮
CSS
\266E
The Natural Sign (♮) is a musical accidental used to cancel previous flats or sharps, restoring a note to its standard, unaltered pitch. Found in Unicode's Miscellaneous Symbols block, it is primarily used in digital sheet music, music theory discussions, and typographic design. Musicians also frequently use it on social media when discussing tuning, key signatures, or playfully referring to keeping things 'natural'.

How to Type

Windows
Alt+9838 or Win+. then search
macOS
Control+Command+Space then search
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+U then 266E
HTML
♮ or ♮

In Programming

While rarely used in standard programming syntax, the natural sign is essential in music notation software development (such as MusicXML or LilyPond) and algorithmic composition scripts to explicitly define pitch data.

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Tags

accidental cancel cancel flat cancel sharp key signature cancel music music accidental music theory symbol natural natural note notation pitch restore unaltered note unicode natural sign

Related Symbols

♩ Quarter Note ♪ Eighth Note ♫ Beamed Eighth Notes ♬ Beamed Sixteenth Notes ♭ Flat Sign ♯ Sharp Sign 𝄞 Treble Clef 𝄢 Bass Clef 𝄴 Common Time 𝄵 Cut Time 𝄻 Whole Rest 𝄼 Half Rest