A violin emoji, used to represent the musical instrument. Emoji

Objects

A wooden, stringed musical instrument shown with its bow resting against the body. It features a curved neck, f-shaped sound holes, and a bridge, clearly depicting a standard orchestral violin.

Usage Context

Used to discuss classical music, concerts, or the act of playing an instrument. It is frequently employed to talk about talent, practice sessions, or the arts in general. Users often pair it with 🎶 to set a musical tone or with 🎼 when discussing sheet music or composition.

History

The violin emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the expansion of musical instrument representation. It draws from long-standing graphical traditions in desktop publishing software and early digital music notation programs that required icons for instrument selection.

Details

Glyph

🎻

Unicode

U+1F3BB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3bb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFBB;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Objects

Subcategory musical-instrument

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.

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