U+266D Music Flat Sign
U+266D was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+266D forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “flat” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: bemolle, music, note.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In music, flat means lower in pitch. It may either be used generically, meaning any lowering of pitch, or refer to a particular size: lowering pitch by a chromatic semitone. A flat is the opposite of a sharp (♯) which raises pitch by the same amount that a flat lowers it.
The flat symbol (♭) is used in two ways: It is placed in key signatures to mark lines whose notes are flattened throughout that section of music; it may also be an "accidental" that precedes an individual note and indicates that the note should be lowered temporarily, until the following bar line.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9837 |
| UTF-8 | E2 99 AD |
| UTF-16 | 26 6D |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 26 6D |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%99%AD |
| HTML hex reference | ♭ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â™ |
| HTML named entity | ♭ |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 F3 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A2 DA |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A2 F5 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A2 F5 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A2 F5 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A2 DA |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 AD 31 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 75 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 75 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 75 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 75 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 75 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 75 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 22 5A 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | D9 DA |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 F3 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 F3 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 F3 |
| LATEX | \flat |
| Adobe Glyph List | musicflatsign |
| digraph | Mb |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| MUSIC FLAT SIGN | |
| FLAT | |
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Music Flat Sign | |
| U |