🪘️ Long drum emoji
HTML
🪘
Unicode
U+1FA98
What is 🪘️ called?
🪘️ is called the Long drum emoji.
It is also known as hand drum, barrel drum, or long hand drum. These are natural common, regional, technical, or appearance-based terms rather than extra official names; Unicode’s official name is long drum.
What does 🪘️ mean?
🪘 is officially named long drum. A long drum, an elongated percussion instrument used in various cultural and ceremonial contexts. Long drums represent cultural traditions, ceremonial music, tribal heritage, and the diverse forms of percussion instruments across different cultures worldwide.
Use it for literal references to long drum and for traditional percussion, cultural music, ceremonial drums, tribal heritage, cultural celebrations. The elongated body and hand-played form distinguish it from the drum-with-sticks symbol; no single regional drum tradition is encoded. Related choices include 🥁 Drum and 🪇 Maracas.
Other meanings
It can mean traditional percussion, cultural music, ceremonial drums, tribal heritage, cultural celebrations. Context determines whether a message is musical, performance-related, technical, cultural, or celebratory.
Example Usage
The long drum ceremony honors our cultural traditions 🪘
The sound or music message uses long drum 🪘
More details
Officially named long drum. Its code point is U+1FA98. It was introduced in Emoji 13.0.
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Visual description
An elongated drum with stretched membrane heads, representing traditional percussion instruments.
The elongated body and hand-played form distinguish it from the drum-with-sticks symbol; no single regional drum tradition is encoded. Colours, proportions, orientation, and fine details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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