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🎸Guitar Emoji
🎸 guitar is encoded at U+1F3B8 and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Objects → Musical Instruments, alongside 12 related emojis.
What 🎸 guitar 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 instrument, music and strat 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+1F3B8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎸 | |
| HTML decimal | 🎸 | |
| CSS | \1F3B8 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3B8} | |
| Python | \U0001F3B8 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFB8 | |
| Rust | \u{1f3b8} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3B8} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3B8} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%B8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E B8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFB8 | |
| Base64 | 8J+OuA== | |
| Decimal | 127928 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- instrument
- music
- strat
Appears in these collections
How to type 🎸
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “guitar”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “instrument”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3b8and 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 🎸 guitar emoji mean?+
🎸 is the guitar emoji, tagged instrument, music and strat. 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 🎸?+
guitar is U+1F3B8. In HTML that is 🎸, in CSS \1F3B8, and in JavaScript \u{1F3B8}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎸 emoji added?+
guitar got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🎸 guitar.