🎸Guitar Emoji
Generally, the 🎸 emoji means “I like music” or “I’m a music fan. ” People use it to show support for a band, express excitement about a song, or simply to add a musical vibe to a conversation.
The 🎸 emoji represents a guitar.
- Unicode
- U+1F3B8
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :guitar:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎸 Guitar emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
Guitar emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the guitar has been drawn in 4 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Guitar emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :guitar:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3B8.
How to type the 🎸 Guitar emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F3B8 when there is no key at all.
Guitar emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the guitar as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Guitar emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around guitar for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🎸, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🎸 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🎸 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the guitar lands changes how it is taken.
Emojis similar to the Guitar emoji
Same family (musical-instrument) — often confused with guitar or used alongside it.
Harp
🩸Drop Of Blood
Collections 🎸 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
Where the 🎸 Guitar emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3B8 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎸 existed there as
KDDI au E506, SoftBank E041.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Guitar was approved as U+1F3B8 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎸 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.