Kangaroo emoji 🦘
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F998
What 🦘 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Kangaroo 🦘 is tagged with these keywords: animal, joey, jump, marsupial.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing animal or joey in the emoji search brings up 🦘.
Kangaroo 🦘 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 kangaroo.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type kangaroo.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type kangaroo in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type kangaroo.
Codes for developers
Kangaroo 🦘 is a single code point, U+1F998. 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+1F998 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦘 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦘 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F998"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F998} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%98 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 98 |
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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What does the kangaroo emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦘 "kangaroo" and links it with animal, joey, jump, marsupial. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the kangaroo emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the kangaroo emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🦘 when you search for kangaroo.