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Also known as , bemolle, ♭-sign

musical sign (accidental) lowering the pitch of a note by one chromatic semitone (factor 2^(1/12))

Key facts

In unicode
U+266D ♭ MUSIC FLAT SIGN ( & flat; )
Different from
U+0062 b LATIN SMALL LETTER B
See also
U+1D12B 𝄫 MUSICAL SYMBOL DOUBLE FLAT , U+1D12C 𝄬 MUSICAL SYMBOL FLAT UP , U+1D12D 𝄭 MUSICAL SYMBOL FLAT DOWN , U+1D133 𝄳 MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE FLAT

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

In music, flat means lower in pitch. The flat symbol, ♭, indicates that the note to which it is applied is played one chromatic semitone lower. The opposite of flat is sharp, indicating a raising of pitch.

The flat symbol (♭) appears in key signatures to indicate which notes are flat throughout a section of music, and also in front of individual notes as an accidental, indicating that the note is flat until the next bar line.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “flat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.