Each of these 95 music kaomoji holds a note: ♪ in 78 of them, ♩, ♫ or ♬ in the rest. Tap one and it is copied. None of the four notes is on Unicode's emoji list.
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Find a face, tap it
Tap a tile and the face is on your clipboard. The groups go by what the face is doing: singing, humming, whistling, dancing, wearing headphones, holding a microphone or playing something. Then come notes with no face, and faces with a Japanese word. Search reads the labels: karaoke finds 9, headphones 10, and off key finds (°ロ°)♪ and (°ロ°)o¶♪ (>_<).
The four notes in a music note kaomoji
♩ is Quarter note, a crotchet in British English. ♪ is Eighth note, a quaver. ♫ is Beamed eighth notes, and ♬ is Beamed sixteenth notes, a pair of semiquavers. They sit side by side in Unicode, U+2669 to U+266C, and (・∀・)/ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ counts through them in that order.
Headphones are two half circles, ◖ ◗, or a d and a b: d(-_-)b♪ needs only a keyboard and one note.
The microphone in (´〇｀)o¶～♪ is Pilcrow sign, the paragraph mark. Two other mics are the Greek letters ρ and θ.
～♪ is the shortest at 2 code points. Short keeps the 27 of 6 or fewer. Everyday characters hides the 4 that borrow a character.
Questions and answers
Is ♪ an emoji?
No. ♪ is Eighth note, U+266A, and Unicode's emoji data file does not give it the Emoji property. The same goes for ♩, ♫ and ♬. The musical note emoji is a separate character, U+1F3B5, and no face here uses it.
Is there a kaomoji with headphones?
Yes, nine. Five wear half circles for ear cups, as in ◖(˘ω˘)◗♪, and four use a d and a b, as in ♪ d[^_^]b ♪. Search headphones and a tenth joins them, with 音楽, ongaku, the Japanese word for music.
What does 鼻歌 mean?
Humming. Wiktionary reads 鼻歌 as hanauta and builds it from 鼻, nose, and 歌, song. It is on (^‿^)♪ 鼻歌 in the last group, next to 口笛, kuchibue, a whistle with the mouth, and ノリノリ, norinori, in high spirits.
Where are the faces with a note and a heart or a star?
On the heart, star, sparkle and flower pages. This family files each face once, and those four props outrank a note, so a face holding a heart and a note is a heart kaomoji. A face lands here when notes are its only prop.
All 95 music kaomoji
Singing 15
(°ロ°)♪Square mouth, loud and off key
(´∀｀)♪Wide grin, singing as it goes
(˘〇˘)♪Eyes shut, feeling every word
(≧〇≦)♬Eyes squeezed, going for the high note
(◕〇◕)♫Big eyes, choir mouth
♪(´▽｀)Open smile, the note comes first
♪(´〇`)(´〇`)♪Two singing, a duet
♪～(´〇｀)～♪A long held note, a wave on each side
ヽ(^〇^)ノ♬Both arms up, mid chorus
ヾ(´〇`)ﾉ♪♪♪Arms out, round mouth, three notes
(^o^)(^O^)(^o^)♪Three in a row, a small choir
(^o^)♪Small o mouth, one note after
(*^o^*)♬Asterisk cheeks, sixteenth notes
(・o・)♪Dot eyes, singing along quietly
(T〇T)♪Singing through tears
Humming 14
( ´ー｀)♪Long dash mouth, mellow
(^-^)♪Hyphen mouth, plain and cheerful
(^_^)♪Five keyboard characters and one note
(^‿^)♪Closed smile, one note
(¬‿¬)♪Side glance, humming something smug
(´ω｀)♪Omega mouth, humming to itself
(˘ω˘)♪Eyes shut, humming
(•ᴗ•)♪Small smile, small note. Borrows ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
(◡‿◡)♫Eyes shut, a tune in its head
(・ω・)♪Dot eyes, omega mouth, one note
(－ω－)♪Eyes shut, humming low
(｡◕‿◕｡)♪Big eyes, dot cheeks
(￣ー￣)♩Flat eyes, one slow quarter note
♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪Round cheeks, a note on each side. Borrows ๑ from Thai and ᴖ from Phonetic Extensions.
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Whistling 8
( ˘ ³˘)♪Superscript three for pursed lips
(¬з¬)～♪Looking away, nothing to see here
(°з°)～♫Wide eyes, a run of beamed notes
(´ε｀ )♪Relaxed eyes, whistling a tune
(・ε・)♪～Dot eyes, the wave after the note
(￣з￣)～♪Whistling to the right
♪～(￣ε￣)Whistling, the note drifting left
(^3^)♪Keyboard 3 for the lips
Dancing 12
ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ♪Swaying, eyes shut, esh for an arm. Borrows ƪ from Latin Extended-B and ʃ from IPA Extensions.
₍₍ ◝(・ω・)◟ ⁾⁾♪Shimmying, small brackets for the wobble
♪ ((└(^ω^)┘)) ♪Bouncing on the spot
♪(^_^)人(^_^)♪Two dancing hand in hand
♪(┌・。・)┌Both arms out to the right
♪(〜^∇^)〜Wavy arms, drifting right
♪┏(^ω^)┛♪One arm down, one up, box drawing arms
♪┏(^ω^)┛♪┗(^ω^)┓♪Both steps in a row
♪┗(^ω^)┓♪The same dance, arms swapped
♬ ヾ(^∇^)ﾉ ♬Arms waving between sixteenth notes
〜(^∇^〜)♪Wavy arms, drifting left
ヘ(￣ω￣ヘ)♪Hands low, shuffling left
Headphones on 9
◖(-_-)◗ ♬Ear cups on, not to be disturbed
◖(˘ω˘)◗♪Ear cups on, eyes shut
◖(≧▽≦)◗♬Ear cups on, favourite song just started
♪ ◖(^_^)◗ ♪Half circles for ear cups
♪ ◖(•_•)◗Listening hard, dot eyes
d(-_-)b♪Round head, d and b, eyes shut
♫ d(˘ω˘)b ♫A d and a b, beamed notes each side
((d[-_-]b))♪Square headband, double brackets for bass
♪ d[^_^]b ♪Square headband, d and b for ear cups
With a microphone 8
( ´ ▽ ` )_θ♪Theta for a mic on a short lead
(˘〇˘)_θ～♬Theta mic, eyes shut for the slow one
♪ρ(≧〇≦)Rho mic held on the left
♪(^o^)ρRho for a handheld mic
(´〇`)o¶ ♪ ¶o(´〇`)Two mics, one note between them
(≧∀≦)o¶ ♬Pilcrow mic, grinning between verses
(°ロ°)o¶♪ (>_<)One singing, one wincing
(´〇｀)o¶～♪Pilcrow for a microphone, cable trailing
Batons, keys and speakers 6
(°ε°)=◁ ♪♪Blowing a horn, a triangle for the bell
(˘ω˘)つ║▌║█║▌║ ♪At the piano, blocks for the black keys
(⌐■_■)ノ[◉==◉]♫Dark glasses, boombox held up
(・∀・)/ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬Counting up through all four notes
(￣▽￣)/♫•*¨*•.¸¸♪Conducting a ribbon of notes
♫ [◉==◉] ♫A boombox, two speakers and no face
Notes with no face 11
| ♩ ♩ | ♪♪ ♩ |Two bars with keyboard bar lines
˗ˏˋ ♪ ˎˊ˗A note with accent marks for rays
•*¨*•.¸¸♪A ribbon that ends on one note
━━♪━━♬━━Divider of heavy lines and two notes
♩♪♫♬All four notes, in code point order
♪♪♪Three eighth notes
♬♩♪♩Sixteenths, quarter, eighth, quarter
【♪】One note in black lenticular brackets
𝄞 ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬G clef in front of the four notes. Borrows 𝄞 from Musical Symbols.