Violin

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Shortcode: :violin:
Unicode: U+1F3BB
HTML: 🎻
CSS: \1F3BB
JavaScript: "\u{1F3BB}"
URL: %F0%9F%8E%BB

What 🎻 means

A violin with its bow. It stands for classical music and string players. Sarcastically, it is the “world's smallest violin” playing for someone's self-pity.

Sent in reply to an overblown complaint, 🎻 means “cry me a river.” Musicians and fans use it literally for concerts, orchestras and practice.

The sarcastic use mocks the other person, so it lands badly when someone is truly upset.

Facts

Violin 🎻 is an emoji in the objects category, under musical instrument. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :violin:. People also look for it with words like “instrument” or “music”.