U+1FA95 Banjo
U+1FA95 was added in Unicode version 12.0 in 2019. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1FA95 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character βbanjoβ for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: music, stringed.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, in modern forms usually made of plastic, originally of animal skin.
Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by African Americans and had African antecedents. In the 19th century, interest in the instrument was spread across the United States and United Kingdom by traveling shows of the 19th-century minstrel show fad, followed by mass-production and mail-order sales, including instruction method books. The inexpensive or home-made banjo remained part of rural folk culture, but 5-string and 4-string banjos also became popular for home parlor music entertainment, college music clubs, and early 20th century jazz bands. By the early 21st century, the banjo was most frequently associated with folk, bluegrass and country music, but was also used in some rock, pop and even hip-hop music. Among rock bands, the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, and the Grateful Dead have used the five-string banjo in some of their songs. Some famous pickers of the banjo are Ralph Stanley and Earl Scruggs.
Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in Black American traditional music and rural folk culture before entering the mainstream via the minstrel shows of the 19th century. Along with the fiddle, the banjo is a mainstay of American styles of music, such as bluegrass and old-time music. It is also very frequently used in Dixieland jazz, as well as in Caribbean genres like biguine, calypso, mento and troubadour.
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 129685 |
UTF-8 | F0 9F AA 95 |
UTF-16 | D8 3E DE 95 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 FA 95 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%AA%95 |
HTML hex reference | 🪕 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΕΈΒͺβ’ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 95 30 F3 39 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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