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🎵Musical Note Emoji
Tagged music, musical and note, 🎵 musical note sits in Unicode's Music group inside Objects. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F3B5.
What 🎵 musical note means
Lyrics quoted in a caption almost always get 🎵 or 🎶 wrapped around them, which is the most common use in this group by a wide margin. 🎧️ marks what someone is listening to, 🎤 covers singing and karaoke plans, and the studio microphone 🎙️ has become the default badge for podcasts. The level sliders and control knobs stay mostly with producers.
Unicode tags this one music, musical and note and files it under Objects → Music.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3B5 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎵 | |
| HTML decimal | 🎵 | |
| CSS | \1F3B5 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3B5} | |
| Python | \U0001F3B5 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFB5 | |
| Rust | \u{1f3b5} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3B5} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3B5} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%B5 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E B5 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFB5 | |
| Base64 | 8J+OtQ== | |
| Decimal | 127925 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🎵
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “musical note”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “music”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3b5and Enter. - HTML — paste
🎵.
How 🎵 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🎵Apple
- 🎵Segoe
- 🎵Noto
- 🎵System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🎵 musical note emoji mean?+
🎵 is the musical note emoji, tagged music, musical and note. Lyrics quoted in a caption almost always get 🎵 or 🎶 wrapped around them, which is the most common use in this group by a wide margin. 🎧️ marks what someone is listening to, 🎤 covers singing and karaoke plans, and the studio microphone 🎙️ has become the default badge for podcasts. The level sliders and control knobs stay mostly with producers.
What is the Unicode code for 🎵?+
musical note is U+1F3B5. In HTML that is 🎵, in CSS \1F3B5, and in JavaScript \u{1F3B5}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎵 emoji added?+
musical note got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Music in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🎵 musical note.