🪈
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.
The lowdown
- 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
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🪈 Flute or 📞 Telephone Receiver?
Runs with a crowd
🪈 keeps company in krishna janmashtami emojis and music emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.