🪈
What 🪈 means
A side-blown flute — silver keys, elegant line. The 🪈 Flute emoji (Emoji 15.0, September 2022) finally gave flautists their instrument, covering concert flutes, fifes, and wind music generally.
Between marching bands, orchestras, and one very famous meme about band camp, the flute had been overdue for years.
How and when to use it
- Practice and performance posts: "Nailed the solo I've been fighting with for a month 🪈"
- Marching band content: "Friday night lights, 🪈 section leading the way."
- Works for every wind-instrument joke, including the ones about band camp.
At a glance
- Category
- Objects › musical-instrument
- Codepoints
U+1FA88- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.0
- Shortcodes
:flute:- Keywords
- band, fife, flautist, flute, instrument, marching, music, orchestra, piccolo, pipe, recorder, woodwind
How it looks across platforms
