On Apple/iOS, this emoji appears as a slightly angled sheet in three-quarter view: a bright white page with crisp black notation and a chunky treble clef front and center. A soft gradient and tiny page curl give it that glossy, printed-program vibe you’d prop on a stand before a big performance. Nothing cartoony here—clean staves, clear notes that look ready to play—and with one glance you can practically hear the tuning A.
Think of it as sheet music on your screen: five staff lines, a strong treble clef, and a little procession of notes yelling “practice time!” It delivers instant orchestra-pit energy, like cracking open a rehearsal binder while the conductor is already counting you in. People use it to flex music theory cred, announce concerts or recitals, or signal they’re composing, arranging, or knee-deep in film-score work. It’s also shorthand for “life needs a soundtrack right now,” whether that’s Beethoven or a lo-fi study loop.
Online, it doubles as a vibe check—great for dramatic entrances, musical-theater-kid energy, or going full Hans Zimmer to underscore group chat drama. Used with a wink, it can mean “I can read music (unlike some of you)” or “this tea needs background strings.” Band and orchestra kids toss it around like a secret handshake; choir folks drop it when the altos are carrying (again). It shows up in memes about sight-reading panic and “me hearing one measure and pretending I know the whole piece.”
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
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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)
