Musical Score Emoji
A stave with a treble clef, representing written music rather than a recording.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Musical Score emoji mean?
A stave with a treble clef, representing written music rather than a recording.
Formal and compositional. It points at written music rather than listening, so it fits musicians better than fans.
How to use 🎼 naturally
Composition, sheet music and classical listening.
Activity emoji name what is happening rather than how anyone feels about it. They work as compact labels for plans, results and hobbies, which is why invitations and announcements lean on them so heavily.
From standard to slang
The history of 🎼
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Musical Score was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A musical score with notes across the staff. It is the written form of music, where 🎵 is the sound of it.
- Today
How its use evolved
Composition, sheet music and classical listening.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🎼 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
First draft of the score is done 🎼
Rehearsal from bar forty 🎼
Learning to read music properly 🎼
When to use it
Using 🎼 clearly
Composition, sheet music and classical listening. It lands as musical score emoji or 🎼 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the musical score emoji
What does 🎼 mean in a text message?
A stave with a treble clef, representing written music rather than a recording. Formal and compositional. It points at written music rather than listening, so it fits musicians better than fans.
Is 🎼 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are musical score emoji, 🎼 meaning, sheet music emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
What does 🎼 mean from a girl or from a guy?
The same thing either way: A stave with a treble clef, representing written music rather than a recording. The sender's gender does not change what the character means. What does change it is how well you know each other, what the rest of the message says, and whether either of you is being ironic.
Why does 🎼 look different on another device?
U+1F3BC identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the musical score emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🎼 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the musical score emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🎼 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🎼 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F3BC | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🎼 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🎼 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F3BC | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3BC} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8E%BC | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F3BC
- Category
- Activities & Play
- Also known as
- musical score emoji🎼 meaningsheet music emoji
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