The guitar emoji is your instant "crank the amp" button, dropped into chats to scream rock show, band practice, or just "I’m feeling loud today." It cues riffs, solos, and that one friend who brings an acoustic to every party like a side quest to play Wonderwall. On social, people use it for concert announcements, setlist teases, or ironically to roast dramatic posts with a "cue guitar solo" energy. It can be flirty too—pair it with "teach me a chord" vibes or the classic moody mirror selfie holding a Strat.
On Apple/iOS, it shows a glossy red‑orange electric guitar tilted diagonally up-right, white pickguard gleaming, chrome knobs, and a brown fretboard with six tuning pegs—very Strat‑ish vibes. The styling is polished and slightly 3D, strings visible, like it’s ready to plug into an amp and melt faces. Those visual cues make it read as electric, not acoustic, so it leans toward rock, pop, punk, and metal moods.
Culturally, it nods to buskers, garage bands, Guitar Hero nostalgia, and the eternal "Free Bird?" heckle from the crowd. You’ll see it in captions for open mics, soundchecks, recording days, or when someone posts a spicy riff on TikTok. It also works for melodrama (sad guitar riff), victory laps after nailing a solo, or clowning that kid who turns every conversation into gear talk.
Definition
A brown shiny electric guitar at an angle with a white background.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
712 of 2393
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ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:guitar:
Keywords
Guitar, String, Music, Instrument, Jam, Rock, Acoustic, Electric
