What 🎻 means
A deep brown violin with a wooden body characterized by a deep brown fingerboard that ends in two pairs of pegs on either side and a scroll. Leaning over this structure is its pair, a wooden bow with a stick and hair.
Although it does produce a variety of tones and tunes, the 🎻 Violin emoji generally signifies melancholic melodies and music. Being a representative of the fiddle as well, this emoji could suggest both classic and folk music.
How and when to use it
- While sharing content that's tragic and/or melancholic or just purely philosophical, the kind that pops delusional bubbles of vague contentment, use 🎻. For example, "The thing about brutal honesty is that it's more brutal than honest 🎻".
- If you're talking about being fit as a fiddle in any context, bring in 🎻. For instance, "It's hard to be fit as a fiddle 🎻 when you like the cello".
- You could also use 🎻 while posting something about a tragic play, theatre, or drama (even better if it's a musical).
- If you're sharing a picture of yourself as a violinist, a musician you look up to, a page of lyrics or notes you're about to play, anything to do exclusively with the art and the artist, use 🎻 in the caption.
Other Names
- 🎻 Fiddle
- 🎻 Smallest Violin
- 🎻 Small Stringed Instrument
- 🎻 String Quartet
- 🎻 World's Smallest Violin
- 🎻 Violin and Bow
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › musical-instrument
- Codepoints
U+1F3BB- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:violin:- Keywords
- instrument, music, violin
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 — 🎻 Violin or 🕉️ Om?
Runs with a crowd
🎻 keeps company in music emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.