Maracas is the Unicode character ๐ช at codepoint U+1FA87 in the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard โ or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Maracas
To use the Maracas symbol (๐ช) in HTML, insert the
entity 🪇 directly into your markup. The decimal entity 🪇 works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1FA87';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u{1FA87}' evaluates to ๐ช. In Python source, write '\U0001FA87'.
The character encodes to F0 9F AA 87 as UTF-8 bytes and D83E DE87 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 129671.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.