🥁Drum Emoji
Generally, the 🥁 emoji means "I feel it" or "Let’s go! ".
The 🥁 emoji represents a drum.
- Unicode
- U+1F941
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :drum_with_drumsticks:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🥁 Drum emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 2.
Drum emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the drum has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Drum emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :drum_with_drumsticks:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F941.
How to type the 🥁 Drum emoji
No picker to hand? The drum can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Drum emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the drum as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Drum emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around drum for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🥁, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🥁 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🥁 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Emojis similar to the Drum emoji
Same family (musical-instrument) — often confused with drum or used alongside it.
Harp
🩸Drop Of Blood
Collections 🥁 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
🥁 vs 🪘 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Drum
Code: U+1F941 · added 2016
Shortcode: :drum_with_drumsticks:
Generally, the 🥁 emoji means "I feel it" or "Let’s go!
Unicode name: Long Drum
Code: U+1FA98 · added 2020
Shortcode: :long_drum:
Generally, the 🪘 emoji means “beat” or “rhythm.
Where the 🥁 Drum emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 3.0, the drum has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F941 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Drum was approved as U+1F941 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🥁 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.