U+1FA88 "🪈" Flute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🪈
U+1FA88 "🪈" Flute is a pictographic representation of a flute, specifically a transverse or side blown flute, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 as part of the Symbols and Pictographs Extended A block. It depicts a long, narrow musical instrument with holes along its body, often shown with a mouthpiece or embouchure hole near one end, and it is used in digital text to represent music, melody, or wind instruments in general. This character falls under the category of musical symbols and can be employed in contexts ranging from music notation and instrument discussions to emoji style communication about performance or sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA88 |
| Version Added | 15.0 |
| Name | Flute |
| Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🪈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🪈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xAA 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDE88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FA88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\ude88 |