Banjo emoji 🪕
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1FA95
What 🪕 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🪕 are music, stringed. They show what people use it for.
Search for music or stringed on your emoji keyboard and 🪕 is among the results.
You will find 🪕 among the musical instruments (13 emoji), part of objects with 268 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🥁 🪘 🪇 🪈.
Will 🪕 show on my friend's phone?
Emoji 12.0 brought 🪕 in 2019. Most phones show it now; only devices that have not been updated for years miss it.
How to type 🪕
Search for banjo in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🪕.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type banjo.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type banjo in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type banjo.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🪕 is one code point (U+1FA95), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1FA95 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🪕 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🪕 | |
| CSS | content: "\1FA95"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA95} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%AA%95 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 95 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🪕 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the banjo emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🪕 "banjo" and links it with music, stringed. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the musical instruments subgroup of objects.
When was the banjo emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
How do I type the banjo emoji?
Search for banjo in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🪕.