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♯
U+266F · MUSIC SHARP SIGN

Music Sharp Sign

  • CodepointU+266F
  • NameMUSIC SHARP SIGN
  • Decimal9839
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySm — Math Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+266F (♯) is MUSIC SHARP SIGN, a mathematical symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ♯

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 99 AF3 bytes
UTF-16266F1 code unit
UTF-320000266F4 bytes
HTML named♯named character reference
HTML decimal♯
HTML hex♯
CSS\266Fin content: "…"
JavaScript\u266F
JSON\u266F
Python\u266F
Python\N{MUSIC SHARP SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u266F
C / C++\u266Funiversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{266F}
Go\u266F
Ruby\u266F
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9839)
URL-encoded%E2%99%AFpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
U+2669♩Quarter Note U+266A♪Eighth Note U+266B♫Beamed Eighth Notes U+266C♬Beamed Sixteenth Notes U+266D♭Music Flat Sign U+266E♮Music Natural Sign U+2670♰West Syriac Cross U+2671♱East Syriac Cross U+2672♲Universal Recycling Symbol U+2673♳Recycling Symbol for Type-1 Plastics U+2674♴Recycling Symbol for Type-2 Plastics U+2675♵Recycling Symbol for Type-3 Plastics