musical note

Nota musical

= music, being in good mood → 266A ♪  eighth note

Information

The musical note emoji is your all-purpose vibe switch: drop it to say you’re listening to a bop, quoting lyrics, or just typing in a sing-song voice. It often bookends a caption like little stage lights—think “on repeat 🎵” or a flirty “good morning 🎵” that basically hums at you. People use it for earworms, karaoke nights, #NowPlaying posts, and stan streams when a new single drops; it’s also great for comedic timing, like sugarcoating bad news with a cheery note—“rent went up again 🎵.” In texts, it can read as playful, dramatic, or deliciously ironic depending on the sentence it’s attached to.

On Apple devices, it appears as a single glossy eighth note: indigo-to-cyan gradient, smooth 3D shading, tilted just enough to look like it’s mid-groove, stem up with a tidy curved flag. No face, no fuss—just pure tune energy you can spot instantly on the keyboard. It shows up all over social feeds: K-pop comeback parties, Swiftie release-night chaos, lo-fi study sessions, and throwback posts where someone inevitably Rickrolls the timeline. Translation: if your message has rhythm—or needs a little sparkle—the musical note hits the beat.

Definition

Two eighth note symbols connected together by a beam. iEmoji old name: Generic Music Notes.

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. 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.
2. 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)	356 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	:musical_note:
Keywords	Musical, Music, Note, Music, Sound

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	MUSICAL NOTE = music, being in good mood x (eighth note - 266A) Temporary Notes: Disunified from U+266A due to source separation rule (Shift_JIS).
Symbol Information	U+1F3B5 proposed
Proposal Identifier	e-813

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	#146 'Cheerful' るんるん 「runrun」 U+E6F6 SJIS-F99B JIS-7870
KDDI	#343 八分音符 U+E5BE SJIS-F7EE JIS-7870
Softbank	#46 #old62 音符 U+E03E SJIS-F97E

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)	e03e
Formal Unicode Notation	U+E03E
Decimal Code Point(s)	57406
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xEE 0x80 0xBE
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	EE 80 BE
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	356 200 276
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE03E
UTF-16 Hex	e03e
UTF-16 Dec	57406
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0000E03E
UTF-32 Hex	E03E
UTF-32 Dec	57406
Python Src	u"\uE03E"
PHP Src	"\xee\x80\xbe"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uE03E"

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)	1f3b5
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F3B5
Decimal Code Point(s)	127925
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0xB5
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 8E B5
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 216 265
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83C 0xDFB5
UTF-16 Hex	d83cdfb5
UTF-16 Dec	55356 57269
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F3B5
UTF-32 Hex	01F3B5
UTF-32 Dec	127925
Python Src	u"\U0001F3B5"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x8e\xb5"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83C\uDFB5"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)