Drum
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- Shortcode
:drum:- Unicode
U+1F941- HTML
🥁- CSS
\1F941- JavaScript
"\u{1F941}"- URL
%F0%9F%A5%81
What ๐ฅ means
A snare drum with crossed drumsticks. It stands for drums and rhythm, and for a drumroll before big news.
A string like โ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅโ builds suspense before a reveal. After a bad pun, a single ๐ฅ stands in for the ba-dum-tss rimshot. Drummers and band members use it literally for practice and gigs.
Facts
Drum ๐ฅ is an emoji in the objects category, under musical instrument. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :drum:. People also look for it with words like โdrumsticksโ or โmusicโ.
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 3.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.