U+266E "♮" Music Natural Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♮
U+266E "♮" Music Natural Sign is a typographic symbol used in musical notation to cancel a previous sharp or flat, instructing the performer to play the note at its natural pitch. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols block and has been part of the Unicode standard since version 1.1. The symbol features a distinct square shape with slightly extended vertical and horizontal strokes, designed to visually replace the accidental symbol it nullifies. In digital contexts, it is commonly employed in written music, educational materials, and text discussions about pitch alteration, though it may appear less frequently than its sharp or flat counterparts in standard text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+266E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Music Natural Sign |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Natural |
| 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 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x266E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000266E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u266e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Math | Yes |
| Other Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |