Objects · Emoji 0.6
🎶Musical Notes Emoji
Usually, it just means “music.” People use it to show they’re listening to something or to add a musical vibe to their message.
The 🎶 emoji shows musical notes.
- Unicode
- U+1F3B6
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :notes:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎶 Musical Notes emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
02 — Platforms
Musical Notes emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the musical notes as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Musical Notes 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 :notes:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F3B6.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎶 Musical Notes emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F3B6 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Musical Notes emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the musical notes as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Musical Notes emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around musical notes 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 with 🎶, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🎶 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the musical notes and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🎶 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3B6, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🎶 vs 🎼 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Musical Notes
Code: U+1F3B6 · added 2010
Shortcode: :notes:
Usually, it just means “music.”
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.
12 — History
Where the 🎶 Musical Notes 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+1F3B6 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 E6FF, KDDI au E505, SoftBank E326.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Musical Notes was approved as U+1F3B6 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.
13 — FAQ