# 🥁 Drum emoji

🥁 Drum is an emoji in the musical instruments set of Objects. It was added in Emoji 3.0 in 2016. Related words: drumsticks and music.

- Emoji: 🥁
- Unicode name: drum
- Code points: U+1F941
- Category: Objects, Musical instruments
- Added: Emoji 3.0 (2016)
- GitHub shortcode: :drum:
- Keywords: drum, drumsticks, music
- Page: https://emojichart.com/drum-emoji

## What it means

A drum with a pair of drumsticks resting on top. It points to drumming, percussion, marching bands and keeping a beat, and people also use it for a drumroll before a big reveal or announcement.

## How to type 🥁

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “drum”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “drum”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “drum”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “drum”.
- GitHub: Type :drum: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | tambor | baquetas, música, tambor |
| Français (fr) | batterie | baguette, baguettes, batterie, musique, tambour |
| Deutsch (de) | Trommel | Drumsticks, Instrument, Musik, Schlägel, Sticks, Trommel, Trommelstöcke |
| Italiano (it) | tamburo | bacchette, banda, musica, percussioni, tamburello, tamburo |
| Português (pt) | tambor | baquetas, música, percussão, tambor |
| Nederlands (nl) | trommel | drummen, drums, drumsticks, muziek, muziekinstrument, trommel, trommelen, trommelstokken |
| Svenska (sv) | trumma | musik, trumma, trumma med trumpinnar, trumpinnar |
| Polski (pl) | bęben | bęben, bębenek, grać, muzyka |
| Türkçe (tr) | davul | bateri, davul, müzik, ramazan davulu, tokmak |
| Русский (ru) | барабан | барабан, инструмент, музыка, музыкальный инструмент, палочки, ударные |
| Українська (uk) | барабан | барабан, музика, палички |
| Ελληνικά (el) | τύμπανο | μουσική, μπαγκέτες, τύμπανο |
| العربية (ar) | طبلة | تطبيل, طبل, طبلة, عصا الطبلة, موسيقى |
| עברית (he) | תוף | מוזיקה, מוסיקה, מקלות תיפוף, סנר, קצב, תוף |
| فارسی (fa) | طبل | درام, ساز, طبل, کوبه‌ای, موسیقی |
| हिन्दी (hi) | ड्रम | ड्रम, ड्रमस्टिक, संगीत |
| বাংলা (bn) | ড্রাম | গান, ড্রাম, ড্রামস্টিক, সংগীত |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | drum | drum, musik, stik drum |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | trống | dùi trống, nhạc, trống |
| ไทย (th) | กลอง | กลอง, ดนตรี, ตี, เพลง, ไม้, รัว |
| 日本語 (ja) | ドラム | ドラム, ドラムスティック, 太鼓, 楽器, 音楽 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 드럼 | 드럼, 북, 북채, 음악 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 鼓 | 音乐, 鼓, 鼓声, 鼓槌 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 鼓 | 打擊樂, 音樂, 鼓, 鼓棒, 鼓槌 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): trom
- Akan (ak): twene
- Albanian (sq): daulle
- Amharic (am): ከበሮ
- Armenian (hy): թմբուկ
- Assamese (as): ঢোল
- Azerbaijani (az): davul
- Bashkir (ba): барабан
- Basque (eu): danborra
- Belarusian (be): барабан
- Bosnian (bs): bubanj
- Breton (br): taboulin
- Bulgarian (bg): барабан
- Burmese (my): ဗုံ
- Canadian French (fr-CA): tambour
- Cantonese (yue): 鼓
- Catalan (ca): tambor
- Cherokee (chr): ᎱᎵ
- Chuvash (cv): параппан
- Croatian (hr): bubanj
- Czech (cs): buben
- Danish (da): tromme
- Estonian (et): trumm
- Faroese (fo): trumma
- Filipino (fil): drum
- Finnish (fi): rumpu
- Galician (gl): tambor
- Georgian (ka): ბარაბანი
- Gujarati (gu): ડ્રમ
- Hausa (ha): ganga
- Hungarian (hu): dob
- Icelandic (is): tromma
- Igbo (ig): ìgbà
- Irish (ga): druma
- Javanese (jv): dram
- Kalaallisut (kl): tromme
- Kannada (kn): ಡ್ರಮ್
- Kazakh (kk): барабан
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): بارابان
- Khmer (km): ស្គរ
- Kinyarwanda (rw): ingoma
- Konkani (kok): धोल
- Kyrgyz (ky): барабан
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): Tamb’or
- Lao (lo): ກອງ
- Latvian (lv): bungas
- Lithuanian (lt): būgnas
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): bubon
- Luxembourgish (lb): Trommel
- Macedonian (mk): тапан
- Malay (ms): dram
- Malayalam (ml): ചെണ്ട
- Maltese (mt): tanbur
- Marathi (mr): ड्रम
- Mongolian (mn): бөмбөр
- Māori (mi): pahū
- Nepali (ne): ड्रम
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Drọm
- Northern Sotho (nso): moropa
- Norwegian (no): tromme
- Odia (or): ଡ୍ରମ୍‌
- Oromo (om): diraamii
- Pashto (ps): ډول
- Punjabi (pa): ਡਰੰਮ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): ڈھول
- Quechua (qu): tambor
- Romanian (ro): tobă
- Romansh (rm): schumber
- Sardinian (sc): tamburu
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): druma
- Serbian (sr): добош
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): doboš
- Shan (shn): ၵွင်
- Sindhi (sd): ڊهول
- Sinhala (si): බෙරය
- Slovak (sk): bubon
- Slovenian (sl): boben
- Somali (so): durbaan
- Swahili (sw): ngoma
- Tajik (tg): нақора
- Tamil (ta): மேளம்
- Telugu (te): డ్రమ్
- Tigrinya (ti): ከበሮ
- Tongan (to): nafa talamu
- Tswana (tn): moropa
- Turkmen (tk): deprek
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): bubon
- Urdu (ur): ڈرم
- Uyghur (ug): دۇمباق
- Uzbek (uz): baraban
- Welsh (cy): drwm
- Wolof (wo): ndënd
- Xhosa (xh): igubu
- Yoruba (yo): Ìlù
- Zulu (zu): idilamu

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F941` |
| HTML | `🥁` |
| CSS | `\1F941` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F941}` |
| Python | `\U0001F941` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F A5 81` |
| UTF-16 | `D83E DD41` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%A5%81` |

## Questions

### What does the 🥁 drum emoji mean?

A drum with a pair of drumsticks resting on top. It points to drumming, percussion, marching bands and keeping a beat, and people also use it for a drumroll before a big reveal or announcement.

### How do I type the 🥁 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “drum”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :drum:.

### When was the 🥁 emoji added?

🥁 was added in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🥁?

U+1F941. In HTML you can write 🥁, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F941}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/drum-emoji