Piano Emoji

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Piano Emoji

๐ŸŽนMusical keyboardU+1F3B9Ready to copy

59 items. Tap one to copy it.

Piano and music 13

Piano keys 5

Piano symbols 3

Piano emoticons 3

Keyboard drawing 1

Piano words 11

Piano sayings 4

Piano lines 7

Piano combos 12

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How it works

The piano emoji is ๐ŸŽน, U+1F3B9, from Emoji 0.6. Unicode names it Musical keyboard: no emoji has piano in its name, and this is the only one that CLDR, Unicodeโ€™s list of search words, files under piano.

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Piano keys, counted

For a piano key emoji there is only ๐ŸŽน, so the piano keys emoji here are typed. By Wikipedia an octave has seven longer white keys, C to B, and five shorter black ones, and most modern pianos have 88 keys, 52 white and 36 black. โ–ฏโ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฏโ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฎโ–ฏ is one octave in that order.

Why it is called a piano

By Wiktionary, piano is a clipping of pianoforte, from the Italian piano, soft, and forte, strong: it could vary its volume note by note. Sheet music keeps the word: the dynamic p means soft or quiet. Unicode has a character for it, Musical symbol piano, U+1D18F, which may show as an empty box.

Questions and answers

What does the ๐ŸŽน emoji mean?

A piano or another keyboard instrument, and music in general: its other CLDR words are keyboard, instrument, music and musical. Unicode lists it with the musical instruments, between ๐ŸŽธ Guitar and ๐ŸŽป Violin.

Is there a piano emoticon in text?

No standard one. Typed with plain keys, [|#|#||#|#|#|] is one octave in a case: a bar for each white key and a hash for each black. The drawing is the same octave, six lines tall.

Is there a grand piano emoji?

No: ๐ŸŽน is the only piano, and no emoji name holds grand, upright or organ. By Wiktionary a grand piano has its strings strung horizontally, and an upright piano has them mounted vertically.

All 59 items

Piano and music 13

  • Accordion U+1FA97. Filed under accordion, squeezebox and instrument. Emoji 13.0.
  • Clapping hands U+1F44F. Filed under applause and clap. Emoji 0.6.
  • Drum U+1F941. Filed under drum and music. Emoji 3.0.
  • Guitar U+1F3B8. The emoji before Musical keyboard in Unicodeโ€™s list. Filed under guitar and instrument. Emoji 0.6.
  • Keyboard U+2328 U+FE0F. The typing kind: the only other emoji filed under keyboard. Also filed under computer. Emoji 1.0.
  • Microphone U+1F3A4. Filed under microphone and sing. Emoji 0.6.
  • Musical keyboard U+1F3B9. The only emoji filed under piano. Also filed under keyboard, instrument and music. Emoji 0.6.
  • Musical note U+1F3B5. Filed under music and note. Emoji 0.6.
  • Musical notes U+1F3B6. Filed under music and notes. Emoji 0.6.
  • Musical score U+1F3BC. Filed under music, score and note. Emoji 0.6.
  • Saxophone U+1F3B7. Filed under saxophone and instrument. Emoji 0.6.
  • Trumpet U+1F3BA. Filed under trumpet and instrument. Emoji 0.6.
  • Violin U+1F3BB. The emoji after Musical keyboard in Unicodeโ€™s list. Filed under violin and instrument. Emoji 0.6.
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Piano keys 5

  • |#|#||#|#|#| The same octave in plain ASCII: a bar for each white key, a hash for each black
  • โ–ฏโ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฏโ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฎโ–ฏ One octave, C to B: seven white keys and five black, in Unicodeโ€™s White vertical rectangle and Black vertical rectangle
  • C D E F G A B The seven white keys of an octave, by note name
  • Cโ™ฏ Dโ™ฏ Fโ™ฏ Gโ™ฏ Aโ™ฏ The five black keys, named as sharps
  • Dโ™ญ Eโ™ญ Gโ™ญ Aโ™ญ Bโ™ญ The same five black keys, named as flats

Piano symbols 3

  • ๐‘๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘š๐‘ ๐‘š๐‘“ ๐‘“ ๐‘“๐‘“ Six dynamics in italic letters, from very quiet to very loud
  • Italic f, for forte U+1D453. Mathematical italic small f: a stand-in here for the dynamic f, loud.
  • Italic p, for piano U+1D45D. Mathematical italic small p: a stand-in here for the dynamic p, quiet. Unicodeโ€™s own Musical symbol piano is U+1D18F.

Piano emoticons 3

  • [|#|#||#|#|#|] One octave in a case. Plain ASCII
  • [|#|#||#|#|#||#|#||#|#|#|] Two octaves in a case. Plain ASCII
  • โ™ช [|#|#||#|#|#|] โ™ช The same piano between two eighth-note characters

Keyboard drawing 1

  • Piano keys, drawn One octave, six lines of ASCII

Piano words 11

  • Arpeggio ๐ŸŽน By Wiktionary: a chord's notes played one by one, not together
  • Eighty-eight ๐ŸŽน By Wiktionary, slang: a piano, for its number of keys
  • Grand piano ๐ŸŽน By Wiktionary: a big piano whose strings lie horizontally in a heavy harp-shaped frame
  • Ivories ๐ŸŽน By Wiktionary: the keys of a piano
  • Octave ๐ŸŽน By Wiktionary: an interval of twelve semitones over eight degrees of the diatonic scale
  • Old joanna ๐ŸŽน By Wiktionary, Cockney rhyming slang: a piano
  • Pianoforte ๐ŸŽน By Wiktionary, dated: a piano. Piano is a clipping of it
  • Player piano ๐ŸŽน By Wiktionary: an acoustic piano played automatically by a mechanism
  • Recital ๐ŸŽน By Wiktionary: a soloist's vocal, instrumental or visual performance
  • Soft pedal ๐ŸŽน By Wiktionary: the leftmost foot-pedal of most pianos, which softens the note played
  • Upright piano ๐ŸŽน By Wiktionary: a kind of piano with strings mounted vertically

Piano sayings 4

  • Play it by ear By Wiktionary, of music: to play by oneโ€™s own musical perception and intuition, not from a written score. Musical keyboard, then ear.
  • Practice makes perfect By Wiktionary: much practice makes one good at a thing. Musical keyboard, then repeat button, then hundred points.
  • Strike a chord By Wiktionary: to draw a strong reaction, especially a favorable or sympathetic one. Musical keyboard, then red heart.
  • Tickle the ivories By Wiktionary, informal: to play a keyboard instrument, a piano say. Feather, then musical keyboard.

Piano lines 7

  • ๐ŸŽน Hands separately, then together For practice
  • ๐ŸŽน Lesson at ___ Fill in the blank
  • ๐ŸŽน Now learning: ___ Fill in the blank
  • ๐ŸŽน Play it again For a reply
  • ๐ŸŽน Practising. Scales first For a status
  • ๐ŸŽน Recital on ___ Fill in the blank
  • ๐ŸŽน Requests taken after ___ Fill in the blank

Piano combos 12

  • Concert night Musical keyboard, then performing arts.
  • Daily practice Musical keyboard, then alarm clock.
  • Keys, sax and drums Musical keyboard, then saxophone, then drum.
  • Lesson day Musical keyboard, then books.
  • Moving the piano Musical keyboard, then delivery truck, then flexed biceps.
  • Piano and voice Musical keyboard, then microphone.
  • Piano duet Musical keyboard, twice.
  • Piano tuner Musical keyboard, then wrench.
  • Recital, with flowers Musical keyboard, then clapping hands, then bouquet.
  • Sight-reading Musical score, then eyes, then musical keyboard.
  • Song for the cake Musical keyboard, then birthday cake.
  • Wedding music Musical keyboard, then ring.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Musical keyboard is U+1F3B9, Emoji 0.6, in the group Objects, subgroup musical-instrument, between Guitar and Violin. CLDR gives it five words (instrument, keyboard, music, musical, piano); it is the only emoji under piano, and one of two under keyboard, with Keyboard. No emoji name holds piano, grand, upright or organ. Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): the one character with piano in its name is U+1D18F, Musical symbol piano, in Unicode since version 3.1 by DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt). It drew as an empty box in this site's check, so Mathematical italic small p stands in for it. That most modern pianos have 88 keys, 52 white and 36 black, is from Wikipedia, Piano (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano); that the seven natural notes C to B have the longer keys and the remaining five the shorter raised ones, with their sharp and flat names, and that the pattern repeats each octave, is from Wikipedia, Musical keyboard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_keyboard); the dynamics from pp, very quiet, to ff, very loud, are from Wikipedia, Dynamics (music) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music)). The origin of the word piano, the piano words and the sayings are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0): piano (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piano), pianoforte (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pianoforte), grand piano (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grand_piano), upright piano (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/upright_piano), ivories (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ivories), eighty-eight (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eighty-eight), joanna (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/joanna), octave (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octave), arpeggio (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arpeggio), soft pedal (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soft_pedal), player piano (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/player_piano), recital (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recital), tickle the ivories (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tickle_the_ivories), strike a chord (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/strike_a_chord), play by ear (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/play_by_ear), practice makes perfect (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/practice_makes_perfect). The octave in rectangles and in ASCII, the three typed pianos, the drawing, the seven lines and the twelve combos are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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