Around music, sharp means higher in pitch. Further specifically, around musical notation, sharp means "higher in pitch by a semitone," and has an associated symbol ($\backslash sharp$), which looks somewhat such as the "#" (number sign). A note C sharp is shown in musical notation in Figure 1. Under equal temperament, B sharp is the same when, or even enharmonically equivalent to, C, & E sharp a equivalent when F. There likewise survive double-sharps, which look such as and raise a note by ii half step. Less typically of these might encounter half or even trio quarter, or even otherwise modified, sharps.

Around tuning, sharp can also mean "very slightly higher in pitch." Whenever ii strings or even singers come slightly away from tune, a higher-pitched of these is said to become sharply by owning respect to the more.

Watch likewise: flat.

A Unicode character '♯' (U+266F) may display as a sharp sign a few computers, & '𝄪' (U+1D12A) will display as a double acutely.

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