Hippopotamus Emoji

Animals

A side-profile view of a large, grey hippopotamus standing on four stubby legs. The character features a rounded snout, small ears, and a heavy, stout body shape characteristic of the semi-aquatic giant.

Usage Context

Used to represent the animal itself, a visit to the zoo, or a trip to a nature reserve. It is also occasionally used as a playful way to call someone heavy, clumsy, or to signal that you are feeling particularly lazy or hungry. It pairs naturally with other safari-themed icons like 🐘 or 🦁.

History

The hippopotamus was added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of the Emoji 11.0 update. Its inclusion followed a surge in user requests for more diverse wildlife representations, allowing people to move beyond standard farm animals and cats or dogs.

Details

Glyph

🦛

Unicode

U+1F99B

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f99b:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD9B;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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