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🥁Drum Emoji
The drum emoji 🥁 carries the codepoint U+1F941 and has been in the standard since Emoji 3.0 (2016). It belongs to Objects → Musical Instruments.
What 🥁 drum means
Players reach for these to label what they practise, what a band is missing and what a track sounds like, with 🎸 standing in for rock generally and 🎹 for anyone who makes beats. The family has widened well beyond Western orchestral instruments over time: maracas 🪇 and flute 🪈 were both added in Emoji 15.0 in 2023.
Unicode tags this one drumsticks, music and files it under Objects → Musical Instruments.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F941 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🥁 | |
| HTML decimal | 🥁 | |
| CSS | \1F941 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F941} | |
| Python | \U0001F941 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD41 | |
| Rust | \u{1f941} | |
| Swift | \u{1F941} | |
| PHP | \u{1F941} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A5%81 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A5 81 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD41 | |
| Base64 | 8J+lgQ== | |
| Decimal | 129345 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 3.0 (2016) | |
Keywords
- drumsticks
- music
Appears in these collections
How to type 🥁
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “drum”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “drumsticks”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f941and Enter. - HTML — paste
🥁.
How 🥁 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🥁Apple
- 🥁Segoe
- 🥁Noto
- 🥁System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🥁 drum emoji mean?+
🥁 is the drum emoji, tagged drumsticks, music. Players reach for these to label what they practise, what a band is missing and what a track sounds like, with 🎸 standing in for rock generally and 🎹 for anyone who makes beats. The family has widened well beyond Western orchestral instruments over time: maracas 🪇 and flute 🪈 were both added in Emoji 15.0 in 2023.
What is the Unicode code for 🥁?+
drum is U+1F941. In HTML that is 🥁, in CSS \1F941, and in JavaScript \u{1F941}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🥁 emoji added?+
drum got its emoji presentation in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Musical Instruments in Objects.
Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🥁 drum.