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Character	Name	Code point	HTML	LaTeX
	U+266D. Lowers a note by one semitone. The shape is a stylised small b, from the Italian be molle, soft B. &flat; in HTML, \flat in LaTeX maths mode. In Unicode since version 1.1 (1993).
	U+1D12B. Lowers a note by two semitones, so B double flat sounds as A. It is one character, not two flats typed side by side. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
	U+266E. Cancels a flat or a sharp. It grew out of the square b of medieval notation, as the sharp did, while the round b became the flat. &natur; in HTML, \natural in LaTeX.
	U+266F. Raises a note by one semitone. Its bars slant upwards so that they do not hide the staff lines. The number sign on the keyboard is a different character. &sharp; in HTML, \sharp in LaTeX.
	Made of U+0042 and U+266D. First in the order of flats, so every flat key signature starts here. B♭ major has two flats, B♭ and E♭. In German note names this pitch is plain B, and H is B natural.
	Made of U+0045 and U+266D. Second in the order of flats. E♭ major has three flats: B♭, E♭ and A♭. The alto saxophone is an E♭ instrument.
	Made of U+0041 and U+266D. Third in the order of flats. A♭ major has four flats, and its relative minor is F minor.
	Made of U+0044 and U+266D. Fourth in the order of flats. D♭ major has five flats. Spelled as C♯ major, the same key needs seven sharps.
	Made of U+0047 and U+266D. Fifth in the order of flats. G♭ major has six flats, and its enharmonic twin, F♯ major, has six sharps.
	Made of U+0043 and U+266D. Sixth in the order of flats, and the same piano key as B. C♭ major carries all seven flats.
	Made of U+0046 and U+266D. The seventh and last flat, and the same piano key as E. It only shows up in the signature with all seven flats: C♭ major or A♭ minor.
	Made of U+266D. The stand-in for 𝄫 where no font has the real one: two plain flat signs in a row.
	Made of U+0042 and U+1D12B. B lowered by two semitones, which sounds as A. It uses U+1D12B, so it needs a font that covers the Musical Symbols block.
	Made of U+0045 and U+1D12B. E lowered by two semitones, which sounds as D.
	Made of U+0041 and U+1D12B. A lowered by two semitones, which sounds as G.
	Made of U+0042, U+266D and U+006D. Five flats. The relative minor of D♭ major, a minor third below it.
	Made of U+0045, U+266D and U+006D. Six flats. The relative minor of G♭ major.
	Made of U+0041, U+266D and U+006D. Seven flats. The relative minor of C♭ major. Spelled as G♯ minor, the same key needs five sharps.
	Made of U+266D and U+0035. A chord alteration: the fifth lowered by a semitone. C7♭5 is C, E, G♭ and B♭.
	Made of U+266D and U+0039. The ninth lowered by a semitone. C7♭9 is C, E, G, B♭ and D♭.
	Made of U+266D, U+0031 and U+0033. One of the usual alterations of a dominant chord, with ♭5, ♯5, ♭9, ♯9 and ♯11.
	Made of U+006D, U+0037, U+266D and U+0035. The half-diminished seventh chord, spelled 1, ♭3, ♭5, ♭7. Bm7♭5 is B, D, F and A.
	Made of U+266D and U+0033. A scale degree, the lowered third. A half-diminished seventh chord is spelled 1, ♭3, ♭5, ♭7.
	Made of U+266D and U+0037. A scale degree, the lowered seventh. Built into a chord it becomes ♭VII.
	Made of U+266D and U+0049. Roman numeral for the major chord a semitone above the keynote: D♭ in the key of C. It falls to I in a ♭II to I cadence.
	Made of U+266D and U+0049. In C major this is E♭, G and B♭, a chord borrowed from C minor.
	Made of U+266D, U+0056 and U+0049. In C major: A♭, C and E♭. With ♭III and ♭VII it is one of the borrowed chords common in popular music.
	Made of U+266D, U+0056 and U+0049. In C major: B♭, D and F. The backdoor progression runs ii, ♭VII7, I.
	Made of U+0042 and U+266E. B with the flat cancelled. German note names call this pitch H and keep plain B for B♭.
	U+0062. The letter the flat sign grew out of, and its usual stand-in where ♭ will not show. It is on the keyboard.
	Made of U+0042 and U+0062. The keyboard spelling: a capital B and a small b, no music character at all. Two small b's do the same job for a double flat.
	U+0185. A tone letter, not a music sign. Unicode's note: Zhuang (old orthography). Unicode cross-references it to the Cyrillic soft sign, the next row.
	U+044C. A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, shaped like a flat sign with a level top. &softcy; in HTML.
	U+0023. The key most people press for a sharp. Unicode's own note prefers 266F for a musical sharp. It is on the keyboard.
	U+23E5. Flat in the engineering sense: a parallelogram that marks a flatness tolerance on a technical drawing. It is one of the form controls of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. Added in version 5.0 (2006).
	U+1D133. Lowers a note by a quarter tone, half of what ♭ does. This one is drawn as a flat with a 4. A reversed flat or a flat with a slash says the same thing. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D12C. A flat with an arrow pointing up. Unicode files it under Pitch modifiers, next to Flat down. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D12D. A flat with an arrow pointing down, the partner of Flat up. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D12E. A natural sign with an arrow pointing up. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D12F. A natural sign with an arrow pointing down. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D1EA. The flat of Persian music: it lowers a note by roughly a quarter tone. Alinaghi Vaziri set it up in the early 20th century. Added in version 14.0 (2021).
	U+1D1ED. A flat facing the other way. Unicode's alias: quarter tone flat. One of the Stein-Zimmermann quarter-tone accidentals, new in version 18.0 (2026).
	U+1D1EE. Unicode's alias: three-quarter tone flat. The same thing is also called a sesquiflat, a flat and a half. New in version 18.0 (2026).
	U+1D1F3. The up form of the reversed flat, named on the pattern of U+1D12C Flat up. New in version 18.0 (2026).
	U+1D1F4. The down form of the reversed flat. New in version 18.0 (2026).
	U+1D1F5. The up form of the three-quarter tone flat. New in version 18.0 (2026).
	U+1D1F6. The down form of the three-quarter tone flat, and the last of the twelve Stein-Zimmermann characters. New in version 18.0 (2026).
	U+1D256. Unicode's aliases: bakiye flat and Arabic quarter-tone flat. Filed under Turkish and Arabic accidentals in a block that is new in version 18.0 (2026).
	U+1D257. Unicode's alias: büyük mücenneb flat, from Turkish music. New in version 18.0 (2026).
	U+1D258. Unicode's alias: Arabic three-quarter-tone flat. New in version 18.0 (2026).
	U+1D260. Three flats as one character: it lowers a note by three semitones, so B triple flat sounds as A♭. Triple flats are very rare in real scores. New in version 18.0 (2026).
	U+1ADA. A combining mark: a small flat that sits above the letter typed before it. Unicode files it under J.P. Harrington diacritics, so it is for phonetics, not scores. Added in version 17.0 (2025).
	U+1D0D9. From Byzantine chant notation. Yfesis is the Greek word for a flat, as diesis is for a sharp. Added in version 3.1 (2001).

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The flat symbol is ♭, Music flat sign, U+266D. The 53 rows add 𝄫, ♮ and ♯, flat notes ready-made, keys, chord symbols, look-alikes, and 18 rare flats, 10 of them new in Unicode 18.0.

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Two codes, and no Alt code

♭ is &flat; in HTML and \flat in LaTeX maths mode. ♮ is &natur; and \natural, ♯ is &sharp; and \sharp. No row here has an Alt code or an Option key. The 26 made rows, such as B♭ or m7♭5, are two to four characters, so they show code points only.

If 𝄫 arrives as an empty box, copy the row Two flat signs instead: ♭♭ shows wherever ♭ does.
A small b is a letter, not a flat. Bb and B♭ are different strings, so pick one spelling and keep it through a document.
From two flats on, the major key is the signature's second-to-last flat: three flats, B♭ E♭ A♭, is E♭ major.

Questions and answers

How do I type the flat symbol on a keyboard?

No keyboard has a ♭ key, and ♭ has no Alt code. In Word, type 266D, then press Alt and X. On Linux, press Compose, then # and b. Anywhere else, copy it from this page.

What is the flat symbol in HTML and LaTeX?

&flat; is the named entity, and ♭ or ♭ is the numeric form. In LaTeX, \flat prints ♭ in maths mode and needs no package, so B flat is B$\flat$. \natural and \sharp work the same way.

What is the order of flats in a key signature?

B♭, E♭, A♭, D♭, G♭, C♭, F♭, which is the order of rows five to eleven. One flat is F major. Two to seven flats are B♭, E♭, A♭, D♭, G♭ and C♭ major. Each relative minor sits a minor third lower.

Why does the double flat show as an empty box?

𝄫 is U+1D12B, in the Musical Symbols block, and the device needs a font that covers that block. ♭ itself is U+266D, in a different block. Where 𝄫 fails, ♭♭ is the usual stand-in.

What is the difference between ♭ and the letter b?

♭ is a music sign and b is a letter. The sign began as a round small b, from the Italian be molle, soft B, which is why they look alike. ƅ and ь, under Not the flat sign, are letters too.

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A flat Made of U+0041 and U+266D. Third in the order of flats. A♭ major has four flats, and its relative minor is F minor.
B flat Made of U+0042 and U+266D. First in the order of flats, so every flat key signature starts here. B♭ major has two flats, B♭ and E♭. In German note names this pitch is plain B, and H is B natural.
C flat Made of U+0043 and U+266D. Sixth in the order of flats, and the same piano key as B. C♭ major carries all seven flats.
D flat Made of U+0044 and U+266D. Fourth in the order of flats. D♭ major has five flats. Spelled as C♯ major, the same key needs seven sharps.
E flat Made of U+0045 and U+266D. Second in the order of flats. E♭ major has three flats: B♭, E♭ and A♭. The alto saxophone is an E♭ instrument.
F flat Made of U+0046 and U+266D. The seventh and last flat, and the same piano key as E. It only shows up in the signature with all seven flats: C♭ major or A♭ minor.

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G flat Made of U+0047 and U+266D. Fifth in the order of flats. G♭ major has six flats, and its enharmonic twin, F♯ major, has six sharps.
Music flat sign U+266D. Lowers a note by one semitone. The shape is a stylised small b, from the Italian be molle, soft B. &flat; in HTML, \flat in LaTeX maths mode. In Unicode since version 1.1 (1993).
Music natural sign U+266E. Cancels a flat or a sharp. It grew out of the square b of medieval notation, as the sharp did, while the round b became the flat. &natur; in HTML, \natural in LaTeX.
Music sharp sign U+266F. Raises a note by one semitone. Its bars slant upwards so that they do not hide the staff lines. The number sign on the keyboard is a different character. &sharp; in HTML, \sharp in LaTeX.
Musical symbol double flat U+1D12B. Lowers a note by two semitones, so B double flat sounds as A. It is one character, not two flats typed side by side. Added in version 3.1 (2001).

Flat signs 1

Two flat signs Made of U+266D. The stand-in for 𝄫 where no font has the real one: two plain flat signs in a row.

Flat notes 3

A double flat Made of U+0041 and U+1D12B. A lowered by two semitones, which sounds as G.
B double flat Made of U+0042 and U+1D12B. B lowered by two semitones, which sounds as A. It uses U+1D12B, so it needs a font that covers the Musical Symbols block.
E double flat Made of U+0045 and U+1D12B. E lowered by two semitones, which sounds as D.

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A flat minor Made of U+0041, U+266D and U+006D. Seven flats. The relative minor of C♭ major. Spelled as G♯ minor, the same key needs five sharps.
B flat minor Made of U+0042, U+266D and U+006D. Five flats. The relative minor of D♭ major, a minor third below it.
E flat minor Made of U+0045, U+266D and U+006D. Six flats. The relative minor of G♭ major.
Flat five Made of U+266D and U+0035. A chord alteration: the fifth lowered by a semitone. C7♭5 is C, E, G♭ and B♭.
Flat nine Made of U+266D and U+0039. The ninth lowered by a semitone. C7♭9 is C, E, G, B♭ and D♭.
Flat seven Made of U+266D and U+0037. A scale degree, the lowered seventh. Built into a chord it becomes ♭VII.
Flat seven chord Made of U+266D, U+0056 and U+0049. In C major: B♭, D and F. The backdoor progression runs ii, ♭VII7, I.
Flat six chord Made of U+266D, U+0056 and U+0049. In C major: A♭, C and E♭. With ♭III and ♭VII it is one of the borrowed chords common in popular music.
Flat thirteen Made of U+266D, U+0031 and U+0033. One of the usual alterations of a dominant chord, with ♭5, ♯5, ♭9, ♯9 and ♯11.
Flat three Made of U+266D and U+0033. A scale degree, the lowered third. A half-diminished seventh chord is spelled 1, ♭3, ♭5, ♭7.
Flat three chord Made of U+266D and U+0049. In C major this is E♭, G and B♭, a chord borrowed from C minor.
Flat two chord Made of U+266D and U+0049. Roman numeral for the major chord a semitone above the keynote: D♭ in the key of C. It falls to I in a ♭II to I cadence.
Minor seventh flat five Made of U+006D, U+0037, U+266D and U+0035. The half-diminished seventh chord, spelled 1, ♭3, ♭5, ♭7. Bm7♭5 is B, D, F and A.

Natural and sharp 1

B natural Made of U+0042 and U+266E. B with the flat cancelled. German note names call this pitch H and keep plain B for B♭.

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B flat in plain letters Made of U+0042 and U+0062. The keyboard spelling: a capital B and a small b, no music character at all. Two small b's do the same job for a double flat.
Cyrillic small letter soft sign U+044C. A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, shaped like a flat sign with a level top. &softcy; in HTML.
Flatness U+23E5. Flat in the engineering sense: a parallelogram that marks a flatness tolerance on a technical drawing. It is one of the form controls of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. Added in version 5.0 (2006).
Latin small letter b U+0062. The letter the flat sign grew out of, and its usual stand-in where ♭ will not show. It is on the keyboard.
Latin small letter tone six U+0185. A tone letter, not a music sign. Unicode's note: Zhuang (old orthography). Unicode cross-references it to the Cyrillic soft sign, the next row.
Number sign U+0023. The key most people press for a sharp. Unicode's own note prefers 266F for a musical sharp. It is on the keyboard.

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Byzantine musical symbol geniki yfesis U+1D0D9. From Byzantine chant notation. Yfesis is the Greek word for a flat, as diesis is for a sharp. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
Combining flat sign U+1ADA. A combining mark: a small flat that sits above the letter typed before it. Unicode files it under J.P. Harrington diacritics, so it is for phonetics, not scores. Added in version 17.0 (2025).
Musical symbol flat down U+1D12D. A flat with an arrow pointing down, the partner of Flat up. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol flat up U+1D12C. A flat with an arrow pointing up. Unicode files it under Pitch modifiers, next to Flat down. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol flat with double stem U+1D258. Unicode's alias: Arabic three-quarter-tone flat. New in version 18.0 (2026).
Musical symbol flat with double stroke U+1D257. Unicode's alias: büyük mücenneb flat, from Turkish music. New in version 18.0 (2026).
Musical symbol flat with stroke U+1D256. Unicode's aliases: bakiye flat and Arabic quarter-tone flat. Filed under Turkish and Arabic accidentals in a block that is new in version 18.0 (2026).
Musical symbol koron U+1D1EA. The flat of Persian music: it lowers a note by roughly a quarter tone. Alinaghi Vaziri set it up in the early 20th century. Added in version 14.0 (2021).
Musical symbol natural down U+1D12F. A natural sign with an arrow pointing down. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol natural up U+1D12E. A natural sign with an arrow pointing up. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol quarter tone flat U+1D133. Lowers a note by a quarter tone, half of what ♭ does. This one is drawn as a flat with a 4. A reversed flat or a flat with a slash says the same thing. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
Musical symbol reversed flat U+1D1ED. A flat facing the other way. Unicode's alias: quarter tone flat. One of the Stein-Zimmermann quarter-tone accidentals, new in version 18.0 (2026).
Musical symbol reversed flat and flat U+1D1EE. Unicode's alias: three-quarter tone flat. The same thing is also called a sesquiflat, a flat and a half. New in version 18.0 (2026).
Musical symbol reversed flat and flat down U+1D1F6. The down form of the three-quarter tone flat, and the last of the twelve Stein-Zimmermann characters. New in version 18.0 (2026).
Musical symbol reversed flat and flat up U+1D1F5. The up form of the three-quarter tone flat. New in version 18.0 (2026).
Musical symbol reversed flat down U+1D1F4. The down form of the reversed flat. New in version 18.0 (2026).
Musical symbol reversed flat up U+1D1F3. The up form of the reversed flat, named on the pattern of U+1D12C Flat up. New in version 18.0 (2026).
Musical symbol triple flat U+1D260. Three flats as one character: it lowers a note by three semitones, so B triple flat sounds as A♭. Triple flats are very rare in real scores. New in version 18.0 (2026).

How this list was compiled: Names, and the code points they belong to, are checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, checked 2026-09-19), and printed in sentence case. Notes that say Unicode's note, Unicode's alias, Unicode files it or cross-references quote the headings, aliases, notes and cross-references of NamesList.txt of the same version (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); the version a character was added in is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), block names are from Blocks.txt, the Emoji property and the text style and emoji style sequences are from emoji-data.txt and emoji-variation-sequences.txt of the same version, and the years are from https://www.unicode.org/history/publicationdates.html. HTML entity names are from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json, the HTML 4 name first where there is one, else the shortest. LaTeX macros are listed only when LaTeX's own fontdef.dtx or ltoutenc.dtx (https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/tree/develop/base) or the amssymb and amsfonts sources (https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/amsfonts/source/) define them, matched to a code point through unicode-math-table.tex (https://github.com/latex3/unicode-math). The last group holds characters that one ordinary computer had no font for on the day this list was checked; your device may differ. Meanings, all checked on 2026-09-19: what the flat, double flat, quarter-tone flat, sesquiflat and triple flat do, the be molle origin, the order of flats and the ♭♭ and bb stand-ins are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_%28music%29; the sharp side, the slanted bars and the x stand-in from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_%28music%29; the round b and square b and the German B and H from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_%28music%29; every key signature, the order of sharps, relative minors and enharmonic keys from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signature; chord alterations from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_chord, the half-diminished chord from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-diminished_seventh_chord, ♭II, ♭III, ♭VI and ♭VII from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borrowed_chord; the E♭ alto saxophone from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposing_instrument; koron and sori from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koron_%28music%29; the flatness control from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_dimensioning_and_tolerancing; yfesis and diesis from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ύφεση. Left out: the twelve Byzantine yfesis and diesis signs for fractions of a tone (U+1D0CB to U+1D0D7), which no source here explains, and any chord or key whose name is longer than four characters, because a made row cannot wrap. Licence: own work (facts from the Unicode Character Database, Unicode License v3, and from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in this site's own words; aliases and notes marked as Unicode's are quoted from NamesList.txt, Copyright © 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc., https://www.unicode.org/license.txt)