Maracas emoji 🪇
Emoji 15.0 (2022) · U+1FA87
What 🪇 means
Maracas 🪇 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: cha, dance, instrument, music, party, percussion, rattle, shake, shaker.
Those words also drive emoji search: try cha or dance on your phone to find 🪇.
On the emoji keyboard, 🪇 sits with the musical instruments (13 emoji) inside objects, which has 268 emoji, for example 🪈 🎷 🎺.
Will 🪇 show on my friend's phone?
🪇 is recent (Emoji 15.0, 2022). Your friends need a system update from 2023 or later to see it.
How to type 🪇
To find 🪇 quickly, type maracas into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type maracas.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type maracas in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type maracas.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🪇 as one code point, U+1FA87: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1FA87 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🪇 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🪇 | |
| CSS | content: "\1FA87"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA87} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%AA%87 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 87 |
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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What does the maracas emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🪇 "maracas" and links it with cha, dance, instrument, music. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the musical instruments subgroup of objects.
When was the maracas emoji added?
In Emoji 15.0, released in 2022. Only phones and computers updated since 2023 show it; older ones may show a box.
How do I type the maracas emoji?
To find 🪇 quickly, type maracas into the emoji search.