U+266D "♭" Music Flat Sign Unicode Character

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.