A musical keyboard emoji, used to represent the electronic keyboard instrument. Emoji

Objects

A white and black digital piano keyboard shown from an overhead perspective. The keys are depicted in a standard layout, representing an electronic synthesizer or a professional studio controller.

Usage Context

Used to discuss playing music, attending a concert, or working on a production project. It is frequently sent alongside 🎵 or 🎧 to signal that someone is recording or listening to a new track.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 6.0. It draws from early digital workstation icons where a keyboard layout was the quickest way to identify MIDI-compatible devices or audio sequencing software on computers.

Details

Glyph

🎹

Unicode

U+1F3B9

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3b9:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFB9;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Objects

Subcategory musical-instrument

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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