Flute
Emoji 15.0 ยท Objects ยท :flute:
Also known as: band, fife, flautist, instrument, marching, music, orchestra, piccolo, pipe, recorder, woodwind
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Flute Means
People reach for ๐ช when they mean band, fife, flautist, instrument, marching and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Flute is one of the objects emoji, alongside ๐ท ๐บ ๐ช ๐ช ๐ธ and 7 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Flute was added in 2022 as part of Emoji 15.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ช is the single code point U+1FA88, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :flute:.
How To Use ๐ช
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ช๐ท๐บ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :flute: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.