Hippopotamus emoji 🦛
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F99B
What 🦛 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Hippopotamus 🦛 is tagged with these keywords: animal, hippo.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing animal or hippo in the emoji search brings up 🦛.
Hippopotamus 🦛 is one of 66 emoji in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature (161 emoji), next to 🐭 🐁 🐀 🐹.
Will 🦛 show on my friend's phone?
🦛 was added in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
How to type 🦛
Any emoji picker finds 🦛 when you search for hippopotamus.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type hippopotamus.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type hippopotamus in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type hippopotamus.
Codes for developers
Hippopotamus 🦛 is a single code point, U+1F99B. 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+1F99B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦛 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦛 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F99B"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F99B} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%9B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 9B |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦛 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | hippopotamus |
| Português | hipopótamo |
| Español | hipopótamo |
| Italiano | ippopotamo |
| Français | hippopotame |
| Deutsch | Nilpferd |
| Türkçe | hipopotam |
| Bahasa Indonesia | kuda nil |
| Polski | hipopotam |
| Русский | гиппопотам |
| 日本語 | カバ |
| 한국어 | 하마 |
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the hippopotamus emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦛 "hippopotamus" and links it with animal, hippo. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the hippopotamus emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the hippopotamus emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🦛 when you search for hippopotamus.