♯
Technical information
| Symbol | ♯ | |
| Name | Music sharp sign | |
| Unicode number | U+266F | |
| Category | Accidentals | |
| Description | The Unicode character ♯, or U+266F, is known as the "Music Sharp Sign". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of the sharp symbol used in music notation, which instructs to play the note a semitone higher in pitch. It can be used in digital communications to represent this music notation or metaphorically to indicate a sharp or elevated tone. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ♯ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ♯ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ♯ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%99%AF | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x99 0xAF | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011001:10101111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x266F | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000266F |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u266F" | |
| CSS Code | \266F | |
| JavaScript | "\u266F" | |
| Perl | \x{266F} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u266F" | |
| Python 3 | \u266F | |
| Ruby | \u{266F} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ♯ in sentence and in bold like this ♯ and in italic like this ♯.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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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: "\266F";
}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