Deer emoji 🦌
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F98C
What 🦌 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Deer 🦌 is tagged with these keywords: animal.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing animal or deer in the emoji search brings up 🦌.
Deer 🦌 is one of 66 emoji in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature (161 emoji), next to 🦬 🐮 🐂 🐃.
Will 🦌 show on my friend's phone?
🦌 arrived with Emoji 3.0 in 2016. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
How to type 🦌
Any emoji picker finds 🦌 when you search for deer.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type deer.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type deer in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type deer.
Codes for developers
Deer 🦌 is a single code point, U+1F98C. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F98C | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦌 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦌 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F98C"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F98C} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%8C | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 8C |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦌 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the deer emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦌 "deer" and links it with animal. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the deer emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the deer emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🦌 when you search for deer.