trumpet

Activities

What it means when sent

A trumpet. Besides the instrument itself it often stands for a fanfare — an announcement is coming — and so it sits right before the news.

A single code point. One backspace deletes it.

Sport and game emoji mostly travel as metaphors. 🎯 is not a dartboard but “nailed it”, and 🎲 is leaving it to chance.

Using emojis

Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere — it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (🙃, 😅).
At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare 👍 reads as a brush-off.
Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking — they are usually stripped from the result.
Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.

Q. What does 🎺 mean?

A trumpet. Besides the instrument itself it often stands for a fanfare — an announcement is coming — and so it sits right before the news.

Q. What is its official name?

Unicode calls it trumpet, code point U+1F3BA. It sits under Activities.

Q. Does it survive copy and paste?

On most devices, yes — though every vendor draws it slightly differently.