Two or more musical notes emoji, used to represent music or sound. Emoji

Objects

A cluster of three floating musical notes, typically shown as two eighth notes and a sixteenth note. It serves as a universal shorthand for singing, melodies, and rhythmic audio.

Usage Context

Used to signal that a person is listening to a song, feeling upbeat, or attending a live performance. It often appears in social media bios to highlight musical interests or alongside 🎤 to indicate karaoke or vocal recording.

History

These notes became a staple of early digital expression long before modern smartphones, appearing in 1990s Japanese mobile phone character sets to help users convey the 'vibe' of a message when audio couldn't be played directly. It was officially standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

Details

Glyph

🎶

Unicode

U+1F3B6

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3b6:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFB6;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory music

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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