U+1FA98 "🪘" Long Drum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🪘
U+1FA98 "🪘" Long Drum is a pictographic symbol representing a traditional cylindrical drum with a dark brown body, light brown drumheads on both ends, and intricate decorative patterns along its sides, often associated with various cultural music traditions across Asia and other regions. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Symbols and Pictographs Extended A block in 2020 with the release of version 13.0, expanding the library of musical instrument emojis. This character is typically used in digital communication to reference drumming, music, rhythm, celebrations, or specific cultural performances, allowing users to convey the concept of a long, double headed drum in text based conversations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA98 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Long Drum |
| Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🪘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🪘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xAA 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDE98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FA98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\ude98 |