♭
Technical information
| Symbol | ♭ | |
| Name | Music flat sign | |
| Unicode number | U+266D | |
| Category | Accidentals | |
| Description | The Unicode character ♭, or U+266D, is known as the "Music Flat Sign". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. As the name suggests, this character is used in musical notation to denote a pitch is to be lowered by a semitone, commonly known as "flat". The appearance of the character is somewhat reminiscent of a stylized lowercase 'b'. In music, it's typically placed before the note that it is intended to modify. The effect of a flat sign lasts for the remainder of the measure in which it appears unless canceled or counteracted by a natural sign or another accidental. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ♭ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ♭ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ♭ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%99%AD | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x99 0xAD | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011001:10101101 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x266D | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000266D |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u266D" | |
| CSS Code | \266D | |
| JavaScript | "\u266D" | |
| Perl | \x{266D} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u266D" | |
| Python 3 | \u266D | |
| Ruby | \u{266D} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ♭ in sentence and in bold like this ♭ and in italic like this ♭.
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Font size:
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12px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>♭</span>
span {
content: "\266D";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana