Objects · Emoji 0.6
🎵Musical Note Emoji
Generally, 🎵 means “music” or “sound.” People use it to indicate they’re listening to something or that they’re thinking about music.
The 🎵 emoji is a musical note.
- Unicode
- U+1F3B5
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :musical_
note: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎵 Musical Note emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Musical Note emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the musical note has been drawn in 5 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Musical Note emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :musical_note:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3B5.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎵 Musical Note emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F3B5 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Musical Note emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Musical Note emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around musical note for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🎵 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 🎵 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the musical note lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
🎵 vs 🎼 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Musical Note
Code: U+1F3B5 · added 2010
Shortcode: :musical_note:
Generally, 🎵 means “music” or “sound.”
Unicode name: Musical Score
Code: U+1F3BC · added 2010
Shortcode: :musical_score:
Generally, when someone sends you 🎼 in a text, they're just expressing that they like music or that something sounds good.
11 — History
Where the 🎵 Musical Note emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3B5 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎵 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6F6, KDDI au E5BE, SoftBank E03E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Musical Note was approved as U+1F3B5 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎵 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ