A violin (also known as a fiddle), a small wooden string instrument usually played by drawing a bow across the strings. 

May be used in the context of the world’s smallest violin, a mocking gesture similar to the 🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed emoji that is made toward someone perceived to be exaggerating their misfortune to gain sympathy.

Violin was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.