The musical score emoji is basically sheet music on your screen—five staff lines, a bold treble clef, and a little parade of notes that scream “practice time!” It gives instant orchestra pit energy, like you just opened a binder at rehearsal and a conductor is already counting you in. People drop it when flexing music theory knowledge, announcing concerts or recitals, or sharing that they’re composing, arranging, or deep in film-score land. It’s also the go-to when you want to say “life needs a soundtrack right now,” whether that soundtrack is Beethoven or a lo‑fi study loop.
Online, it doubles as a vibe check: use it for dramatic entrances, musical theatre kid energy, or when you’re in your Hans Zimmer mode about to underscore the drama in the group chat. Sarcastically, it can mean “I can read music (unlike some of you)” or “this tea needs background strings.” Band kids and orchestra kids toss it around like a secret handshake; choir folks use it when the altos are carrying (again). It even pops up with memes about sight‑reading panic and “me hearing one measure and pretending I know the whole piece.”
On Apple/iOS, it looks like a white page of sheet music angled slightly in three‑quarter view, with crisp black notation and a chunky treble clef front and center. The page often has a subtle gradient and a tiny page curl, giving it that glossy, printed‑program feel you’d prop on a stand before a big performance. Nothing cartoony—clean lines, clear staff, and notes that look ready to be played. One glance and you can almost hear the tuning A.
Definition
A musical symbol called a "clef." When a clef is placed on multiple horizontal lines (staff or stave), it provides a reference that informs the musician on the proper pitch to play the musical notes that follow. There are multiple clefs used in sheet music, but the G-clef is the most easily recognized by non-musicians and is the clef used in emoji. A musical score is a written musical composition containing all the information needed by musicians to play the music.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1530 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_score:
Keywords
Music, Musical, Score, Clef, G-Clef, Stave, Staff
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Sport Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Music Symbols
Names & Annotations
MUSICAL SCORE x (musical symbol g clef - 1D11E)
Symbol Information
U+1F3BC proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-81A
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#155 'Mood' ムード 「muudo」 U+E6FF SJIS-F9A4 JIS-7660
KDDI
#453 楽譜 U+EACC SJIS-F3A0 JIS-7A22
Softbank
#47 #old308 音符(楽しい) 「音符(楽shii)」 U+E326 SJIS-F9C6
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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)
1f3bc
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F3BC
Decimal Code Point(s)
127932
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0xBC
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8E BC
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 216 274
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDFBC
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdfbc
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57276
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F3BC
UTF-32 Hex
01F3BC
UTF-32 Dec
127932
Python Src
u"\U0001F3BC"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8e\xbc"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDFBC"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
