Music Flat Sign
Music Flat Sign has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ♭
- Unicode
- U+266D
About this symbol
The flat lowers a note by a semitone. It grew out of the round letter b that medieval musicians wrote for B flat, while the square b for B natural became the natural ♮ and the sharp ♯.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MUSIC FLAT SIGN
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Musical symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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