What does 🎸 mean?
Guitar: playing guitar, rock music, a band.
Its official Unicode name is GUITAR and its CLDR short name is "guitar" (in Hungarian: "gitár"). It belongs to the Objects group and was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- instrument
- music
- strat
In Hungarian: elektromos gitár, hangszer, zene
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws 🎸 in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F3B8. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- GUITAR
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- gitár
- English name (CLDR)
- guitar
- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- Group
- Objects · musical instrument
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :guitar:
Related emojis
- Saxophone
- Trumpet
- Trombone
- Accordion
- Musical keyboard
- Violin
- Banjo
- Drum
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🎸 emoji mean?
Guitar: playing guitar, rock music, a band.
How do I type the 🎸 emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "instrument".
When was the 🎸 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.