The slide trombone πͺ with its codepoint, its input routes, the brass and woodwind it sits beside, and the one comic cue it gets typed for most. Tap the trombone to copy it; the trumpet below is the glyph it kept getting substituted for.
πͺ TROMBONE (U+1FA8A) joined Unicode in version 17.0 and landed on most phones with iOS 26.4 in March 2026. The instrument shelf already held a trumpet, and the argument for a second brass glyph was the slide: a trombone changes pitch by moving a tube rather than pressing valves, which is both what a player sees and what the descending "womp womp" cue depends on. That cue is why this emoji gets typed far more often than any orchestral use would predict.
The Unicode 17.0 codepoint, drawn with the slide extended on every vendor so far.
What the instrument shelf held before the trombone was encoded.
The glyphs that usually keep it company when the joke has not landed.
A Discord nickname stops at 32 characters, an Instagram bio at 150, a TikTok bio at 80, and X weights some characters as two. The UltraTextGen counter reads all of them at once, and counts a multi-codepoint Unicode emoji the way each platform actually bills it.
Open the character counter βNotes, clefs, rests and the full musical-instrument emoji shelf, copy-paste ready.
π«, another Unicode 17.0 addition, and the one that corrects a taxonomy people get wrong.
All eight Unicode 17.0 emoji and which platforms have drawn them so far.
The open treasure chest πͺ with its codepoint, its input routes, the currency shelf Unicode files it on, and the loot-drop use that drivesβ¦