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Music note symbols you can copy
The emoji ๐ต and ๐ถ are pictures of notes. Unicode also has real music symbols that are plain text, like โช, โซ and the treble clef ๐. They are not emoji, so they take the color and size of the text around them.
โฉ โช โซ โฌ have been in Unicode since the early 1990s, and almost every font has them. Most other symbols, like ๐, are in the Musical Symbols block (U+1D100 to U+1D1FF), added in Unicode 3.1 in 2001. Fewer fonts have those, so they may show as an empty box on some phones.
This is decoration, not real sheet music. Plain text can't put a note on a line of the staff. For real sheet music, use a music notation program.
Looking for more symbols? Search for "musical" in the character finder.
Sports emoji by type
Some sports have an emoji for the ball or the gear. Others only have a person doing the sport. A few have both.
| Sport | Type | Ball or gear | Person | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soccer | Ball | None | 2010 and 2016 | |
| Basketball | Ball | 2010 and 2014 | ||
| Tennis | Ball | None | 2010 | |
| Golf | Ball | 2010 and 2014 | ||
| Handball | Ball | None | 2016 | |
| Swimming | Water | None | 2010 | |
| Surfing | Water | None | 2010 | |
| Rowing | Water | None | 2015 | |
| Water polo | Water | None | 2016 | |
| Diving | Water | None | 2019 | |
| Skiing | Winter | 2010 and 2014 | ||
| Snowboarding | Winter | None | 2010 | |
| Ice hockey | Winter | None | 2015 | |
| Curling | Winter | None | 2017 | |
| Boxing | Fighting | None | 2016 | |
| Martial arts | Fighting | None | 2016 | |
| Fencing | Fighting | None | 2016 | |
| Wrestling | Fighting | None | 2016 | |
| Weightlifting | Strength | None | 2014 | |
| Cycling | Other | 2010 and 2015 | ||
| Horse racing | Other | None | 2015 |
There is no emoji for a person playing soccer or tennis. People often use the ball with a running person ๐ or a flexed arm ๐ช.
How to show a woman or man playing a sport
Most sports people come in three versions: a person, a man and a woman. The man and woman versions are not new pictures. Each one is the person emoji joined to a gender sign by a hidden character called a zero width joiner, or ZWJ.
| Part | Character | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Person surfing | U+1F3C4 | |
| Zero width joiner | (invisible) | U+200D |
| Female sign | โ | U+2640 |
| Emoji style | (invisible) | U+FE0F |
| Result: woman surfing | 4 characters |
A phone that knows the sequence draws one picture. An older phone shows the parts next to each other, like ๐โ.
The man and woman versions came in Emoji 4.0 in 2016. A few sports still have only one version: fencing ๐คบ, horse racing ๐, the skier โท๏ธ and the snowboarder ๐. The skin tone buttons in the picker work on most sports people too. Fencing and the skier are the exceptions, since no skin shows.
For every person emoji and all skin tones, see the people and skin tone page.
Newer sports and games
New activity emoji arrive most years. Lacrosse ๐ฅ and softball ๐ฅ came in 2018, the diving mask ๐คฟ and the yo-yo ๐ช in 2019, and the mirror ball ๐ชฉ in 2021. The newest here is the trombone ๐ช, added in Emoji 17.0 in 2025.
2010
Unicode 6.0, 55 new
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2014
Unicode 7.0, 9 new
2015
Emoji 1.0, 8 new
2016
Emoji 3.0, 7 new
2017
Emoji 5.0, 2 new
2018
Emoji 11.0, 10 new
2019
Emoji 12.0, 4 new
2020
Emoji 13.0, 7 new
2021
Emoji 14.0, 1 new
2022
Emoji 15.0, 2 new
2024
Emoji 16.0, 1 new
2025
Emoji 17.0, 1 new
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Going to the game? Find planes, trains and stadiums ๐๏ธ on the travel emoji page, and snacks for the party on the food emoji page.
More for parties and games
- Hands and people๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ช ๐งโ๐ปGestures, jobs and families, with skin tones.
- Food and drink๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ โFruit, meals, sweets and drinks.
- Party and danceแเผผเบูอเบเผฝแDancing and rocking out to music.
- Add emoji to a sentencehappy ๐ birthday ๐ party ๐The emoji translator puts an emoji after each matching word.