What 🎸 means
🎸 is the guitar emoji, filed under Objects in the musical-instrument subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 6.0 (2010).
How it is encoded
🎸 is a single code point, U+1F3B8.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsSent alone about a song
Literal guitar talk: jam invite, show plug, or that riff owned me.
With 🔥 or 🤘
Hype for a specific solo or set.
In a dating bio
Shorthand for I play guitar, and an invitation to ask.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2Guitar-led gig, rehearsal, or a singer who plays.
Rock on: the metal horns hand plus the instrument.
Worth knowing
- Guitar ancestors called the guitarra morisca and guitarra latina are pictured in the Cantigas de Santa María, a 13th-century Spanish songbook; they were relatives, not the modern guitar.
- English guitar came through French guitare, shaped by Spanish guitarra, and ultimately goes back to the Greek kithara, a lyre-type instrument of ancient Greece.
Questions people ask
2Is the guitar emoji acoustic or electric?
Either. Most platforms draw an electric as of 2026, while some older sets (LG, HTC, early Windows) drew acoustics; the emoji means guitar in general.
Does the guitar emoji mean flirting?
No. It adds rock-star admiration, not romance; the words do the flirting.
How to type 🎸
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “guitar”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “guitar”.
Chat apps
:guitar:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🎸Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🎸
HTML hex
🎸
CSS content
content: "\1F3B8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8E%B8
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.