U+266D "♭" Music Flat Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♭
U+266D "♭" Music Flat Sign is a typographic symbol used in Western musical notation to indicate that the pitch of a note should be lowered by one semitone, or half step, from its natural position. It is distinct from the lowercase letter 'b' and was specifically encoded in the Unicode standard to ensure accurate representation in digital text, enabling musicians, composers, and software to display and process musical symbols consistently across different platforms and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+266D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Music Flat Sign |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Flat |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ♭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ♭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x99 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x266D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000266D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u266d |