🪘Long Drum Emoji
Generally, the 🪘 emoji means “beat” or “rhythm. ” It's often used to emphasize a strong pulse or a driving musical element.
The 🪘 emoji represents a long drum, often associated with traditional music and cultural events.
- Unicode
- U+1FA98
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :long_drum:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪘 Long Drum emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
Long Drum emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FA98 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your long drum looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Long Drum emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :long_drum:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FA98.
How to type the 🪘 Long Drum emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Long Drum emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the long 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
Long Drum emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around long 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 Long Drum emoji
Same family (musical-instrument) — often confused with long 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: Long Drum
Code: U+1FA98 · added 2020
Shortcode: :long_drum:
Generally, the 🪘 emoji means “beat” or “rhythm.
Unicode name: Drum
Code: U+1F941 · added 2016
Shortcode: :drum_with_drumsticks:
Generally, the 🥁 emoji means "I feel it" or "Let’s go!
Where the 🪘 Long Drum emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 13.0, the long drum has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 6.
Same character every time — U+1FA98 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.
Long Drum was approved as U+1FA98 and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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.