What does 🪗 Accordion mean?
An accordion, the squeezebox with bellows and keys or buttons. It is used for folk music, polka, sea shanties, Oktoberfest tunes and French café music, and for street musicians and wedding bands. People send it for gigs, lessons or a quirky, old-world mood, often with a dash of humour about the instrument’s reputation.
🪗 Accordion is an emoji from the Objects category (musical instruments), added in Emoji 13.0 in 2020. People use it in messages about box, concertina, instrument, music, squeeze and squeezebox.
Example messages
🪗 Accordion on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Accordion looks on each platform.
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Accordion emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Accordion emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🪗 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :accordion:.
When was the Accordion emoji added?
🪗 Accordion was added in Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🪗 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Accordion. The underlying code (U+1FA97) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.