Music flat sign

Meaning and uses

The flat sign lowers a note by a semitone, as in B♭. Musicians use it when writing chord names and keys in plain text.

Unicode details

♭ is the Unicode character named MUSIC FLAT SIGN, code point U+266D, in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ♭

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 266D and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ♭.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “music flat sign”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 266d, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ♭ or ♭. In a CSS content property, use "\266D".