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🪇Maracas Emoji
🪇 maracas is encoded at U+1FA87 and shipped with Emoji 15.0 (2022). Unicode files it under Objects → Musical Instruments, alongside 12 related emojis.
What 🪇 maracas 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 cha, dance and instrument 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+1FA87 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🪇 | |
| HTML decimal | 🪇 | |
| CSS | \1FA87 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA87} | |
| Python | \U0001FA87 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDE87 | |
| Rust | \u{1fa87} | |
| Swift | \u{1FA87} | |
| PHP | \u{1FA87} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%87 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 87 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DE87 | |
| Base64 | 8J+qhw== | |
| Decimal | 129671 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 15.0 (2022) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🪇
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “maracas”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “cha”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fa87and 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 🪇 maracas emoji mean?+
🪇 is the maracas emoji, tagged cha, dance and instrument. 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 🪇?+
maracas is U+1FA87. In HTML that is 🪇, in CSS \1FA87, and in JavaScript \u{1FA87}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🪇 emoji added?+
maracas got its emoji presentation in Emoji 15.0 (2022). 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 15.0 (2022)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🪇 maracas.