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🪘Long Drum Emoji
🪘 long drum — U+1FA98, added in Emoji 13.0 (2020). Unicode groups it with the other 13 musical instruments emojis under Objects.
What 🪘 long 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 beat, conga and drum 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+1FA98 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🪘 | |
| HTML decimal | 🪘 | |
| CSS | \1FA98 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA98} | |
| Python | \U0001FA98 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDE98 | |
| Rust | \u{1fa98} | |
| Swift | \u{1FA98} | |
| PHP | \u{1FA98} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%98 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 98 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DE98 | |
| Base64 | 8J+qmA== | |
| Decimal | 129688 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 13.0 (2020) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🪘
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “long drum”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “beat”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fa98and 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 🪘 long drum emoji mean?+
🪘 is the long drum emoji, tagged beat, conga and drum. 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 🪘?+
long drum is U+1FA98. In HTML that is 🪘, in CSS \1FA98, and in JavaScript \u{1FA98}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🪘 emoji added?+
long drum got its emoji presentation in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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 13.0 (2020)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🪘 long drum.