The musical keyboard emoji is the universal “I make sounds for a living (or at 2 a.m.)” badge. It stands in for pianos, synths, beat-making, or just vibing to a soft intro before chaos drops. People use it when sharing a cover, flexing a new MIDI controller, or teasing a mysterious “link in bio” track. It also doubles as a mood stamp for nostalgia, melancholy, or classy lounge energy.
On Apple/iOS, it looks like a compact gray electronic keyboard with a slim row of glossy white keys and raised black sharps. Up top there’s a little control panel with candy-colored knobs and buttons—think tiny synth brain—shown from a slightly top‑down angle with clean shading. The proportions say “portable studio,” not grand piano, which makes it feel modern and producer-coded.
Online, it pops up with “cue the music,” lo-fi study streams, and retro 80s synthwave nods, plus a wink to Keyboard Cat for the OG meme scholars. Expect it under posts about Chopin practice, Elton John and Alicia Keys name-drops, or dramatic “piano version” edits of literally anything—Megalovania, Piano Man, Despacito, you name it.
Used sarcastically, it’s the soundtrack emoji for corny punchlines or when someone drops lore and you need a cinematic score asap. Flirty or flexy? Toss it after “come over, I’ll play you something” or during your “producer era” humblebrag on Reels, TikTok, or SoundCloud links. Just don’t mix it up with the computer keyboard emoji unless your instrument is actually QWERTY.
Definition
A keyboard from a musical instrument, such as a piano, organ or electronic keyboard. Each key plays a musical note (sound) when pressed. When three or more keys are pressed at the same time, it makes a chord. The combination of many key strokes and chords makes music.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
817 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:musical_keyboard:
Keywords
Music, Keyboard, Piano, Organ, Instrument, Electric
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Music Symbols
Editorial Comment
Anyone up for chopsticks duet?
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Music Symbols
Names & Annotations
MUSICAL KEYBOARD
Symbol Information
U+1F3B9 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-817
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[ピアノ]
KDDI
#750 ピアノ 「piano」 U+EB40 SJIS-F444 JIS-7B25
Softbank
[ピアノ]
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🎹
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🎹
Decimal HTML Entity
🎹
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🎹
Hex Code Point(s)
1f3b9
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F3B9
Decimal Code Point(s)
127929
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0xB9
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8E B9
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 216 271
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDFB9
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdfb9
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57273
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F3B9
UTF-32 Hex
01F3B9
UTF-32 Dec
127929
Python Src
u"\U0001F3B9"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8e\xb9"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDFB9"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
