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Also known as ♮, ♮-sign

musical sign (accidental) cancelling previous accidentals returning the frequency of the note to the natural/original value

Key facts

In unicode
U+266E , (HTML : &#9838)

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
accidental
Image
Bécarre.svg
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TeX string
\natural
Commons category
Naturals
Unicode character
♮
different from
Natural

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Encyclopedic overview

An A natural, then A♭.

In modern Western music notation, a natural (♮) is a symbol that cancels a previous sharp or flat in the written music. It indicates that the note is at its unaltered pitch.

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