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 Microsoft

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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