maracas

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Musical instrument · Emoji 15

Keywords

cha
dance
instrument
maracas
music
party
percussion
rattle
shake
shaker

About this character

maracas belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1FA87. It was added in Unicode 15.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1FA87
Hex: 1FA87
Decimal: 129671
HTML: 🪇
CSS: \1FA87
JavaScript: \u{1FA87}
Python: \U0001FA87
UTF-8: F0 9F AA 87

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

saxophone U+1F3B7
trumpet U+1F3BA
trombone U+1FA8A
accordion U+1FA97
guitar U+1F3B8
musical keyboard U+1F3B9
violin U+1F3BB
banjo U+1FA95
drum U+1F941
long drum U+1FA98
flute U+1FA88
harp U+1FA89

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.