The trombone emoji is the internet's unofficial salute to the slide-wielding star of the brass section. There isn't a dedicated Unicode trombone yet, so people draft the trumpet emoji or a flurry of musical notes as a stand-in when they want big, brassy energy. Expect it to signal low-brass pride, rehearsal memes, and 'look at this glorious honk' moments.
It also carries the legendary 'sad trombone' sound effect â womp womp â the universal soundtrack for flubbed jokes, fantasy league meltdowns, and awkward plot twists. Dropping it in a text reads as instant irony or playful roasting, like adding a tiny rimshot but more tragic. On the hype side, it blasts for marching band season, pep rallies, ska throwbacks on TikTok, and New Orleans second lines. Real-world touchstones: The Music Man's Seventy-Six Trombones, the muted 'wah-wah' adults in Peanuts, and Trombone Shorty lighting up a festival stage.
On Apple/iOS, the visual stand-in is the gold trumpet emoji: shiny brass, three valves on top, mouthpiece on the left, and a right-facing bell at a slight diagonal â notably no slide. Many users caption it 'pretend this is a trombone' or pair it with arrows to hint that iconic slide motion. It reads instantly as 'brass instrument,' which is usually all you need to land the joke.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 778 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ðŠ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ðŠ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🪊 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🪊 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1fa8a |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1FA8A |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129674 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xAA 0x8A |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F AA 8A |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 252 212 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDE8A |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ede8a |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56970 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001FA8A |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01FA8A |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129674 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001FA8A" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xaa\x8a" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDE8A" |
