🪕Banjo Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you a 🪕, they’re just referencing the banjo. It’s a fun way to show they’re into music or want to talk about something related to it.
The 🪕 emoji represents a banjo.
- Unicode
- U+1FA95
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :banjo:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪕 Banjo emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Banjo emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FA95 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your banjo looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Banjo 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 :banjo:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FA95.
How to type the 🪕 Banjo emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Banjo emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Banjo emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around banjo 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
Chat apps do not change U+1FA95, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Emojis similar to the Banjo emoji
Same family (musical-instrument) — often confused with banjo 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 🪕 Banjo emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FA95 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.
Banjo was approved as U+1FA95 and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.