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🪕Banjo Emoji
Tagged music, stringed, 🪕 banjo sits in Unicode's Musical Instruments group inside Objects. It was introduced in Emoji 12.0 (2019) at U+1FA95.
What 🪕 banjo means
Players reach for these to label what they practise, what a band is missing and what a track sounds like, with 🎸 standing in for rock generally and 🎹 for anyone who makes beats. The family has widened well beyond Western orchestral instruments over time: maracas 🪇 and flute 🪈 were both added in Emoji 15.0 in 2023.
Unicode tags this one music, stringed and files it under Objects → Musical Instruments.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FA95 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🪕 | |
| HTML decimal | 🪕 | |
| CSS | \1FA95 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA95} | |
| Python | \U0001FA95 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDE95 | |
| Rust | \u{1fa95} | |
| Swift | \u{1FA95} | |
| PHP | \u{1FA95} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%95 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 95 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DE95 | |
| Base64 | 8J+qlQ== | |
| Decimal | 129685 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.0 (2019) | |
Keywords
- music
- stringed
Appears in these collections
How to type 🪕
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “banjo”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “music”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fa95and Enter. - HTML — paste
🪕.
How 🪕 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🪕Apple
- 🪕Segoe
- 🪕Noto
- 🪕System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🪕 banjo emoji mean?+
🪕 is the banjo emoji, tagged music, stringed. Players reach for these to label what they practise, what a band is missing and what a track sounds like, with 🎸 standing in for rock generally and 🎹 for anyone who makes beats. The family has widened well beyond Western orchestral instruments over time: maracas 🪇 and flute 🪈 were both added in Emoji 15.0 in 2023.
What is the Unicode code for 🪕?+
banjo is U+1FA95. In HTML that is 🪕, in CSS \1FA95, and in JavaScript \u{1FA95}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🪕 emoji added?+
banjo got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Musical Instruments in Objects.
Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🪕 banjo.