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𝄭

musical symbol flat down

Flat-Down Sign

𝄭 is a flat sign with a downward arrow, used to lower notes by a microtonal amount. It appears in scores that use pitch steps finer than semitones.

Text symbol

What 𝄭 means

It is an arrowed flat used to lower pitch in microtonal notation.

𝄭 is a flat-down accidental. In one documented convention, it is a three-quarter-tone flat: it lowers the note by three quarters of a whole tone, or one semitone plus a quarter tone (half a semitone).

Arrowed accidentals can have different meanings across scores, so read the score's accidental legend before assigning an exact pitch. The 1998 proposal groups this sign with Western notation symbols gathered from manuals and scores spanning the 16th through 20th centuries; the proposal aimed to make score exchange compact and portable.

Specialist microtonal notation for scores with a defined accidental system.

Check the score's accidental legend before assigning an exact pitch.

Part of the collection

𝄞

Music Note Symbols

Don't confuse it with

♭

Music Flat Sign

The standard flat lowers a note by one semitone; 𝄭 is an arrowed microtonal sign whose pitch value follows the score.

𝄬

Musical Symbol Flat Up

This is flat-up; the arrow points in the opposite direction.

𝄳

Musical Symbol Quarter Tone Flat

This is a separate quarter-tone flat sign; do not assume it has the same value as 𝄭.

Questions people ask

Why does 𝄭 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 𝄭

Search it as: flat-down accidental · arrowed flat · microtonal flat · three-quarter-tone flat · flat down · music accidental
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 1D12D, then AltX to get 𝄭.

Windows

⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).

macOS

⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “musical symbol flat down”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1d12d, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𝄭

CSS

\1D12D

Unicode hexadecimal input

To type 𝄭 with Unicode hex input, enter 1D12D and confirm. The app and font must support supplementary-plane musical symbols.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𝄭

HTML hex

𝄭

CSS content

content: "\1D12D";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9D%84%AD

On screen

Code points

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UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Music & sound764 symbols

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