Drum emoji 🥁
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F941
What 🥁 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Drum 🥁 is tagged with these keywords: drumsticks, music.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing drumsticks or music in the emoji search brings up 🥁.
Drum 🥁 is one of 13 emoji in the musical instruments subgroup of objects (268 emoji), next to 🪘 🪇 🪈 .
Will 🥁 show on my friend's phone?
🥁 arrived with Emoji 3.0 in 2016. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
How to type 🥁
Any emoji picker finds 🥁 when you search for drum.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type drum.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type drum in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type drum.
Codes for developers
Drum 🥁 is a single code point, U+1F941. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F941 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🥁 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🥁 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F941"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F941} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A5%81 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A5 81 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🥁 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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All objects emoji →Questions people ask
What does the drum emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🥁 "drum" and links it with drumsticks, music. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the musical instruments subgroup of objects.
When was the drum emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the drum emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🥁 when you search for drum.