Long Drum Emoji 🪘
Emoji Meaning
A tall drum which is most often associated with Africa. Apple depicts it as a long vertical box, other platforms go for a goblet-shaped design with two traditional parts, such as a visible membrane and steady foundation. This drum may represent various kinds of percussion, including all hand drums (bongo or djembe, for instance) and full drumsets. This emoji may pop up in conversations about drumming, groove, music bands, nationalities, or culture and music in general.
The symbol “Long Drum” is included in the “Miscellaneous objects” subblock of the “Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 13.0 in 2020. In 2020, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 13.0 and added to the “Musical Instrument” subcategory of the “Objects” category.
| Unicode Name | Long Drum |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| Unicode Subblock | Miscellaneous objects |
| Unicode Version | 13.0 (2020) |
| Emoji Version | 13.0 (2020) |
| Emoji Category | Objects |
| Emoji Subcategory | Musical Instrument |
| Emoji Name | Long Drum |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1FA98 |
| Simple case change | 1FA98 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F AA 98 | 240 159 170 152 | 4036995736 | 11110000 10011111 10101010 10011000 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3E DE 98 | 216 62 222 152 | 3627998872 | 11011000 00111110 11011110 10011000 |
| UTF-16LE | 3E D8 98 DE | 62 216 152 222 | 1054382302 | 00111110 11011000 10011000 11011110 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 FA 98 | 0 1 250 152 | 129688 | 00000000 00000001 11111010 10011000 |
| UTF-32LE | 98 FA 01 00 | 152 250 1 0 | 2566521088 | 10011000 11111010 00000001 00000000 |
