Long drum
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- Shortcode
:long_drum:- Unicode
U+1FA98- HTML
🪘- CSS
\1FA98- JavaScript
"\u{1FA98}"- URL
%F0%9F%AA%98
What 🪘 means
A tall hand drum, like a conga or djembe. It stands for hand drumming and percussion traditions from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond.
People use it for drum circles, dance classes, cultural festivals, and music like Afrobeats, salsa and rumba. It reads more traditional and folk than 🥁, which suggests a drum kit or a marching snare.
Facts
Long drum 🪘 is an emoji in the objects category, under musical instrument. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :long_drum:. People also look for it with words like “beat”, “conga”, “drum”, or “instrument”.
Timeline
- 2020Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 13.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2020
2025
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2020
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.