How to type Music Natural Sign
To type Music Natural Sign (♮), press Alt + 9838 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ♮ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+266E directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 266e on Linux, or 266e then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Music Natural Sign
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+266E
- Windows
- Alt + 9838 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9838 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ♮ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+266E | MUSIC NATURAL SIGN |
Other symbols
♮ lives in the Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600-U+26FF), weather, astrology, religion, games and a wide miscellany. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
What Music Natural Sign is used for
In mathematical notation ♮ is an ordinary symbol: it carries no special spacing and sits in an expression the way a letter does, standing for a thing rather than doing something to the things around it. That is the classification unicode-math gives it, and it is what decides how the symbol is set: $\natural$ in LaTeX, in maths mode rather than in a sentence.
How Music Natural Sign behaves in software
♮ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
Every way to write Music Natural Sign
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+266E |
| Decimal | 9838 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 AE |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 6E |
| HTML entity | ♮ |
| HTML numeric | ♮ or ♮ |
| CSS | \266E |
| JavaScript | \u266E |
| Python | \u266E |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%AE |
| LaTeX, in maths mode | $\natural$ |
| SVG | 266E.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ♮ arrives as â™®
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 99 AE are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.