U+1FA95 "🪕" Banjo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🪕
U+1FA95 "🪕" Banjo is a graphical representation of a stringed musical instrument known for its distinctive circular body, long neck, and resonating drum-like head, typically associated with folk, bluegrass, and country music traditions. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block, this character allows digital text users to convey the concept of playing, hearing, or discussing the banjo without relying on images or complex explanations. Its inclusion reflects the growing effort to represent a wide array of cultural objects and musical instruments in the global text encoding system, making it easier to express musical themes in messaging, social media, and documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA95 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Banjo |
| 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 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDE95 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FA95 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\ude95 |