Elephant emoji 🐘
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F418
What 🐘 means
Elephant 🐘 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or elephant on your phone to find 🐘.
On the emoji keyboard, 🐘 sits with the mammals (66 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🦣 🦏 🦛 🐭.
Will 🐘 show on my friend's phone?
🐘 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 🐘
To find 🐘 quickly, type elephant into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type elephant.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type elephant in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type elephant.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🐘 as one code point, U+1F418: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F418 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐘 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐘 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F418"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F418} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%98 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 98 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐘 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
More emoji like this
All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the elephant emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐘 "elephant" 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 elephant emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the elephant emoji?
To find 🐘 quickly, type elephant into the emoji search.