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CharacterNameCode pointHTMLLaTeX
U+266D. Lowers a note by one semitone. The shape is a stylised small b, from the Italian be molle, soft B. ♭ 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. ♮ 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. ♯ in HTML, \sharp in LaTeX.
U+1D12A. Raises a note by two semitones. It looks like a small x and is a character of its own. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
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.

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The flat symbol is ♭, Music flat sign, U+266D. The 83 rows add 𝄫, ♮ and ♯, flat and sharp notes ready-made, keys, chord symbols, look-alikes, and 32 rare accidentals, 18 of them new in Unicode 18.0.

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Two codes, and no Alt code

♭ is ♭ in HTML and \flat in LaTeX maths mode. ♮ is ♮ and \natural, ♯ is ♯ and \sharp. No row here has an Alt code or an Option key. The 41 made rows, such as B♭ or m7♭5, are two to four characters, so they show code points only.

Tips
  • 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 second-to-last flat in the signature: 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?

♭ 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 six to twelve. 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. ♭ 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. ♮ 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. ♯ 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).
  • Musical symbol double sharp U+1D12A. Raises a note by two semitones. It looks like a small x and is a character of its own. 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.

Keys and chords 19

  • 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.
  • C sharp minor Made of U+0043, U+266F and U+006D. Four sharps. The relative minor of E major.
  • E flat minor Made of U+0045, U+266D and U+006D. Six flats. The relative minor of G♭ major.
  • F sharp minor Made of U+0046, U+266F and U+006D. Three sharps. The relative minor of A 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. The 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.
  • G sharp minor Made of U+0047, U+266F and U+006D. Five sharps. The relative minor of B major.
  • 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.
  • Sharp eleven Made of U+266F and U+0031. The eleventh raised by a semitone, another of the common alterations.
  • Sharp five Made of U+266F and U+0035. The fifth raised by a semitone, the mirror of ♭5 in an altered chord.
  • Sharp nine Made of U+266F and U+0039. The ninth raised by a semitone. With ♭9 it is one of the common alterations of a dominant chord.

Sharps and naturals 10

  • A sharp Made of U+0041 and U+266F. Fifth in the order of sharps. B major has five. A♯ minor has all seven and sounds the same as B♭ minor.
  • 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♭.
  • B sharp Made of U+0042 and U+266F. The seventh and last sharp, and the same piano key as C. Only C♯ major and A♯ minor carry it in a signature.
  • C sharp Made of U+0043 and U+266F. Second in the order of sharps. D major has two, F♯ and C♯, and its keynote sits a semitone above the last of them.
  • D sharp Made of U+0044 and U+266F. Fourth in the order of sharps. E major has four. D♯ minor, six sharps, is the enharmonic twin of E♭ minor.
  • E sharp Made of U+0045 and U+266F. Sixth in the order of sharps, and the same piano key as F. F♯ major has six sharps.
  • F double sharp Made of U+0046 and U+1D12A. F raised by two semitones, which sounds as G.
  • F sharp Made of U+0046 and U+266F. First in the order of sharps. G major has this one sharp and no other.
  • G sharp Made of U+0047 and U+266F. Third in the order of sharps. A major has three sharps.
  • Two sharp signs Made of U+266F. The stand-in for 𝄪 where no font has the real one. A small letter x is the other common stand-in.

Not the flat sign 6

  • 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. ь 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: for denoting musical sharp 266F is preferred. It is on the keyboard.

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  • Byzantine musical symbol geniki diesis U+1D0D8. The Byzantine partner of the row above, on the sharp side. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
  • 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).
  • Combining sharp sign U+1AD9. The partner of the combining flat: a small sharp above the letter before it. 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 half sharp U+1D1EB. Unicode's alias: quarter tone sharp. New in version 18.0 (2026), under the heading Stein-Zimmermann quarter-tone accidentals.
  • Musical symbol half sharp down U+1D1F0. The down form of the half sharp. New in version 18.0 (2026).
  • Musical symbol half sharp up U+1D1EF. The up form of the half sharp. New in version 18.0 (2026).
  • Musical symbol half sharp with stroke U+1D259. Unicode's alias: küçük mücenneb sharp, from Turkish music. 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 one and A half sharp U+1D1EC. Unicode's alias: three-quarter tone sharp. Also called a sesquisharp. New in version 18.0 (2026).
  • Musical symbol one and A half sharp down U+1D1F2. The down form of the three-quarter tone sharp. New in version 18.0 (2026).
  • Musical symbol one and A half sharp up U+1D1F1. The up form of the three-quarter tone sharp. New in version 18.0 (2026).
  • 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 quarter tone sharp U+1D132. Raises a note by a quarter tone. Also called a half sharp or demisharp. 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 sharp down U+1D131. A sharp with an arrow pointing down. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
  • Musical symbol sharp up U+1D130. A sharp with an arrow pointing up. Added in version 3.1 (2001).
  • Musical symbol sharp with stroke U+1D25A. Unicode's alias: büyük mücenneb sharp. New in version 18.0 (2026).
  • Musical symbol sori U+1D1E9. The partner of the koron: a quarter-step sharp in Persian music. Added in version 14.0 (2021).
  • 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 our 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)