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What Drum Means
People reach for ๐ฅ when they mean drumsticks, music. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Drum is one of the objects emoji, alongside ๐ท ๐บ ๐ช ๐ช ๐ธ and 7 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Drum was added in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ฅ is the single code point U+1F941, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :drum:.
How To Use ๐ฅ
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ฅ๐ท๐บ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :drum: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.