Trombone emoji
Emoji 17.0 (2025) · U+1FA8A
What means
Trombone goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: brass, instrument, jazz, music, sad, slide.
Those words also drive emoji search: try brass or instrument on your phone to find .
On the emoji keyboard, sits with the musical instruments (13 emoji) inside objects, which has 268 emoji, for example 🪗 🎸 🎹 🎻.
Will show on my friend's phone?
is recent (Emoji 17.0, 2025). Your friends need a system update from 2026 or later to see it.
How to type
To find quickly, type trombone into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type trombone.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type trombone in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type trombone.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees as one code point, U+1FA8A: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1FA8A | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🪊 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🪊 | |
| CSS | content: "\1FA8A"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA8A} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%AA%8A | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 8A |
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 trombone emoji mean?
Unicode calls "trombone" and links it with brass, instrument, jazz, music. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the musical instruments subgroup of objects.
When was the trombone emoji added?
In Emoji 17.0, released in 2025. Only phones and computers updated since 2026 show it; older ones may show a box.
How do I type the trombone emoji?
To find quickly, type trombone into the emoji search.