This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1FA98 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character βlong drumβ for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: beat, conga, drum, instrument, long, rhythm.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: πͺοΈ See the Emojipedia for more details on this characterβs emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Long drums are a loose category of tubular membranophones, characterized by their extreme length. They are most common in Africa, Thailand, and in Native American traditions. Long drums can be made out of entire tree trunks.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
NΒΊ
129688
UTF-8
F0 9F AA 98
UTF-16
D8 3E DE 98
UTF-32
00 01 FA 98
URL-Quoted
%F0%9F%AA%98
HTML hex reference
🪘
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
Γ°ΕΈΒͺΛ
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
95 30 F4 32
RFC 5137
\u'1FA98'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\U0001FA98
C and C++
\U0001FA98
C#
\U0001FA98
CSS
\01FA98
Excel
=UNICHAR(129688)
Go
\U0001FA98
JavaScript
\uD83E\uDE98
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{1fa98}
JSON
\uD83E\uDE98
Java
\uD83E\uDE98
Lua
\u{1FA98}
Matlab
char(129688)
Perl
"\x{1FA98}"
PHP
\u{1fa98}
PostgreSQL
U&'\+01FA98'
PowerShell
`u{1FA98}
Python
\U0001FA98
Ruby
\u{1fa98}
Rust
\u{1fa98}
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