Music Sharp Sign
Music Sharp 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+266F
About this symbol
The sharp raises a note by a semitone. Like the flat and the natural, it grew out of the letter b in medieval music: a round b stood for B flat, and a square b for B natural, and the square form developed into the natural ♮ and the sharp ♯.
The sharp looks like the number sign #, but the two are separate characters: the sharp has slanted horizontal strokes and upright verticals.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MUSIC SHARP SIGN
- Also called
- Z notation infix bag count
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Musical symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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