Trombone
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- Shortcode
:trombone:- Unicode
U+1FA8A- HTML
🪊- CSS
\1FA8A- JavaScript
"\u{1FA8A}"- URL
%F0%9F%AA%8A
What ๐ช means
A slide trombone. Besides brass music, it stands for the โsad tromboneโ sound, the falling wah-wah-wah that marks a fail or a letdown.
People send it after a disappointment, a joke that flops or plans that fall through, often with ๐ or ๐. Musicians use it literally for jazz, orchestras and marching bands.
Easy to confuse with ๐บ at small sizes; ๐ช has the long slide.
Facts
Trombone ๐ช is an emoji in the objects category, under musical instrument. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 17.0, released in 2025. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :trombone:. People also look for it with words like โbrassโ, โinstrumentโ, โjazzโ, or โmusicโ.
Timeline
- 2025Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 17.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2025
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2025
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.