A red electric guitar, body and neck fully visible, the guitar emoji stands for playing music, rock, and jam sessions. It covers concert nights too, used just as often for someone learning three chords in their bedroom as for an actual touring musician.
What 🎸 means
An electric guitar with a red and white body designed with a black saddle that's connected to five chords shown as parallel strings with three pickups on the body, a couple of frets along the fretboard that ends at the headstock equipped with tuner pegs.
The 🎸 Guitar emoji evokes tons of emotion that surrounds music and otherwise. This super versatile instrument represents all types of guitars; electric, acoustic, bass, etc. It signifies passion, mood, versatility, and a sense of seeming 'cool' and 'fashionable'.
How and when to use it
- A guitar is generally associated with just one of the gazillion music genres it can play; rock. So, if you are bringing in the 'rock vibe' into any context, you may use 🎸 - "You just hang in there while I rock my style on my way to pick you up 🎸".
- With rock comes labels such as cool, rebellious, groundbreaking, etc. Thus, 🎸 would fit perfectly into such brackets as well. Like, "I've always been a rebel. It's only now that I'm proud of it 🎸".
- If you're sharing a picture with a post caption that's based on a guitar; parts of it, the chords, the music, etc, use 🎸. For example, "My constant escape each time I fret 🎸".
- 🎸 could also be used to refer to 'bass'; in music or even in someone's voice. Like, "His 'good morning' bass voice literally makes my day 🎸".
- While posting or reposting content about music, guitar music, and guitarists particularly, 🎸 is a must; it could be a post for Fête de la Musique or even birthday/tribute posts for your favorite guitarists.
Other Names
- 🎸 Electric Guitar
- 🎸 Acoustic Guitar
- 🎸 String Instrument
- 🎸 Guitarist
- 🎸 Steel Guitar
- 🎸 Bass Guitar
🎸 in real conversations
Why do musicians call a guitar an 'axe'?
Nobody's fully certain, but the leading theory traces it to jazz slang from the 1950s, when saxophone got shortened to 'sax' and then playfully warped into 'axe,' with guitarists borrowing the nickname for their own instrument by the late '60s. 🎸 gets tagged with 'axe' in captions from players leaning into that rock-and-roll vocabulary.
What does 🎸 mean in a dating profile or bio?
Usually a straightforward interest flag — 'I play' or 'I'm into music,' the same category as listing a favorite band, meant to signal a hobby and maybe start a conversation about taste. It's rarely used for anything sneakier than that; guitar just reads as a specific, slightly cooler kind of 'I have a creative side.'
Does 🎸 ever mean something other than the literal instrument?
Rarely — it's mostly a literal music-and-performance emoji, showing up in concert posts, band practice photos and 'learning a new hobby' captions. Compare that to 🎤, which has picked up its own mic-drop idiom; 🎸 hasn't developed a comparable figurative life of its own, at least not yet.
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › musical-instrument
- Codepoints
U+1F3B8- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:guitar:- Keywords
- guitar, instrument, music, strat
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.
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🎸 Guitar or 👩👩👦👦 Family: Woman, Woman, Boy, Boy?
Runs with a crowd
🎸 keeps company in cool emojis and music emojis and party emojis and red emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.