A single drum with two crossed drumsticks resting on top — that's the drum emoji. It's used for actual drumming and percussion, but it's just as common as a stand-in for a literal drumroll — building suspense before an announcement or a big reveal.
What 🥁 means
A short round drum with a wide red rim designed with dark spokes at regular intervals, a white surface that has a pair of drumsticks held convergently towards it.
Like all the other musical instruments on the emoji list, the 🥁 Drum emoji too signifies an array of emotions according to the rhythm and genre it follows. However, this emoji also suggests beats, tempo, and even dance forms such as hip hop.
How and when to use it
- While offering drumroll to any person, conversation, situation, just about any context that's either genuinely exciting or sarcastically, use 🥁. For instance, "Oh wait. Absolutely non-related, terrible comeback coming up 🥁" or "I'm just a few hours from my FIRST EVER VACAY! 🥁".
- You could also use 🥁 to accompany your sarcastic comments at bad jokes, puns, or anything that doesn't particularly impress. Like, "Oh I didn't know you were even capable of analyzing stuff. Ba dum tss 🥁".
- Is someone typing out paragraphs trying to narrate an incident? Is none of it making sense to you? Well, if this is an acquaintance, you could send 🥁 as a way of saying "Beats me, dude 🥁".
- 🥁 could also be used in Christmas contexts! - The Drummerboy!
- If something or someone was 'on/to the beat' as a way of staying with rhythm or style, you can use 🥁. For example, "Man, you should've seen her! She winged that fluke shot to the beat! 🥁".
Other Names
- 🥁 Snare Drum
- 🥁 Snare
- 🥁 Drum and Drumsticks
- 🥁 Drums
- 🥁 Drumroll
- 🥁 Ba Dum Tss
- 🥁 Drummer
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › musical-instrument
- Codepoints
U+1F941- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:drum:GitHub · Discord:drum_with_drumsticks:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- drum, drumsticks, music
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🥁 Drum or 🕍 Synagogue?
Runs with a crowd
🥁 keeps company in carnival emojis and durga puja emojis and music emojis and navratri & garba emojis and party emojis and red emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.