The musical notes emoji is the internet’s way of saying “the vibes are audible.” It tags along after song lyrics, captions for Spotify/Apple Music links, or anytime you’re humming through text—car karaoke, shower solos, or that 10-hour study playlist you swear makes you smarter. It can be flirty ("your voice though 🎶"), ironic (when someone’s wildly off-key), or pure celebration for concert nights and new album drops. People also use it as cute text decoration in bios or to whisper "sound on" without typing it out.
On Apple/iOS, it shows a glossy trio of eighth notes in a blue-to-purple gradient: two neatly beamed together plus one single, all floating at a slight rightward tilt with smooth, rounded stems—clean, shiny, very “pop album cover.” Other platforms skew the shades, but the recognizable three-note cluster stays. Meme-wise, it’s shorthand for an earworm (“POV: your brain at 3 a.m.”) or the dramatic entrance when the beat finally drops. Basically, if your message needs rhythm, drama, or a sprinkle of sonic sparkle, these notes do the talking.
Definition
A few Music eighth-note symbols. iEmoji old name: Song, Music.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
228 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:notes:
Keywords
Musical, Music, Notes, Music, Sound, Melody
Previous Names:
Multiple Musical Notes
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Music Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Music Symbols
Names & Annotations
MULTIPLE MUSICAL NOTES = dancing notes, mood, melody x (beamed eighth notes - 266B) Temporary Notes: disunified from ♫ U+266B
Symbol Information
U+1F3B6 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-814
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#155 'Mood' ムード 「muudo」 U+E6FF SJIS-F9A4 JIS-7660
KDDI
#291 メロディ 「merodei」 U+E505 SJIS-F6DE JIS-7660
Softbank
#47 #old308 音符(楽しい) 「音符(楽shii)」 U+E326 SJIS-F9C6
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e326
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E326
Decimal Code Point(s)
58150
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x8C 0xA6
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 8C A6
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 214 246
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE326
UTF-16 Hex
e326
UTF-16 Dec
58150
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E326
UTF-32 Hex
E326
UTF-32 Dec
58150
Python Src
u"\uE326"
PHP Src
"\xee\x8c\xa6"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE326"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🎶
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🎶
Decimal HTML Entity
🎶
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🎶
Hex Code Point(s)
1f3b6
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F3B6
Decimal Code Point(s)
127926
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0xB6
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8E B6
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 216 266
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDFB6
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdfb6
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57270
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F3B6
UTF-32 Hex
01F3B6
UTF-32 Dec
127926
Python Src
u"\U0001F3B6"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8e\xb6"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDFB6"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
