Used in traditional Japanese music such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh">Noh</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renga">Renga</a>,&nbsp;to indicate the start of a song. More specifically, the part alternation mark is displayed&nbsp;where the singer&rsquo;s part begins.

This symbol looks sort of like a lopsided capital M;&nbsp;or a <a href="/roller-coaster/" title="🎢 Roller Coaster">rollercoaster</a> track showing a dip, and then a drop off to the right.

Part Alternation Mark

Ornamental Japanese Emperor and Empress dolls, as displayed in celebration of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri">Hinamatsuri</a> on March 3 in Japan (Girls&rsquo; or Dolls&rsquo; Day).

<a href="http://mandel59.hateblo.jp/entry/2016/03/04/041437">Generally depicted</a> as a Japanese Emperor (left, in blue, holding a scepter) and Empress (right, in red, holding a fan) in ceremonial court dress and seated on a tatami.

When not applied to Hinamatsuri, sometimes used to represent Japan, dolls, a pair of people (as a couple or two friends), and for various idiosyncratic purposes.

Japanese Dolls

The letter M in a circle, commonly used in to identify a <a title="🚇 Metro" href="/metro/">Metro</a> (subway, underground train) station in a city area.

Circled Latin Capital Letter M

A staff (or stave) showing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef#Treble_clef">treble clef</a> and five horizontal lines.

Musical Score

Two curly loops, which&nbsp;represent&nbsp;a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Used as a symbol&nbsp;for voicemail on many phones.

A variation of this logo is used by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/フリーダイヤル">Free Dial</a>, a toll-free telephone number by NTT in Japan.

Double Curly Loop

A microphone, used&nbsp;to amplify a person&rsquo;s voice when speaking or singing.

Previously shown with <a href="/musical-notes/">music notes</a> on most platforms, implying it to be used for a singer / singing.&nbsp;Today&nbsp;only Twitter&#39;s design retains these notes.

Microphone

A banjo with a round body and a long neck. Used to talk about banjos or music in general.

Banjo

A long drum with a tall body and a cylindrical or hourglass shell. Can be used to represent various drums found around the world from Africa to the Caribbean to Latin America to Asia. Types of long drum include (but are not limited to) djembe, talking drum, conga, bongo, tumbadora, atabaque, and dhol.

Can also be used to talk about drums, music, or beats in general.

Long Drum

A drum shown with drumsticks. A percussion instrument which is likely to be displayed as a snare drum.

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Drum with Drumsticks

A music note emoji,&nbsp;which can denote song lyrics, or other music related topics.

Displays as two eighth-notes (quavers in British English) connected with a beam. A single eight-note (quaver) was previously used in <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/musical-note/">Microsoft</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-7.0/musical-note/">Google&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;emoji designs.

Musical Note

Three eighth notes (quavers in British English), used to represent music or singing. Sometimes inserted&nbsp;next to&nbsp;quoted&nbsp;lyrics, to make it clear that they are part of a song.

Multiple Musical Notes

A saxophone, a single-reed woodwind instrument instrument usually made of brass.&nbsp;

Saxophone

A guitar, which most platforms display&nbsp;as a red&nbsp;electric guitar.

Discontinued emoji sets or such as&nbsp;LG and&nbsp;HTC displayed this as an acoustic guitar, as did <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/guitar/">previous&nbsp;version</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;Windows <a href="/twitter/twemoji-11.3/guitar/">and Twemoji</a>.

Guitar

A small section of a music keyboard, which differs from a&nbsp;<a href="/keyboard/" title="⌨️ Keyboard">computer keyboard</a>.

Showing white and black keys, this keyboard is played by a pianist to make <a href="/musical-notes/" title="🎶 Multiple Musical Notes">music</a>. Commonly used as a piano emoji.

Musical Keyboard

A trumpet, a brass instrument played in jazz bands.

Trumpet

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Emojipedia

GitHub

Slack

Discord

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Apple

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Google Noto Color Emoji

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Samsung

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Microsoft

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

WhatsApp

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Twitter / X

Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Facebook

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Huawei

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Skype

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Twitter Emoji Stickers

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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JoyPixels

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

Sony Playstation

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

OpenMoji

A licensable emoji design set.

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Icons8

An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

emojidex

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Messenger

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

SerenityOS

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

SoftBank

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Docomo

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Mozilla

The following characters we added to <a href="/unicode-consortium">Unicode</a> in 2002, with many given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

Those given emoji presentation status by <a href="/unicode-consortium">Unicode </a>were part of <a href="/emoji-1.0">Emoji 1.0</a> in 2015.

A minor update to Twemoji which&nbsp;adjusted black shades&nbsp;for better contrast when shown on dark backgrounds such as those used in&nbsp;night mode.

〽️ Part Alternation Mark on undefined Twemoji 11.2

〽️ Part Alternation Mark on undefined Twemoji 11.2

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