Orangutan emoji 🦧
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F9A7
What 🦧 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Orangutan 🦧 is tagged with these keywords: animal, ape, monkey.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing animal or ape in the emoji search brings up 🦧.
Orangutan 🦧 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 12.0 (2019). 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 orangutan.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type orangutan.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type orangutan in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type orangutan.
Codes for developers
Orangutan 🦧 is a single code point, U+1F9A7. 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+1F9A7 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦧 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦧 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9A7"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9A7} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%A7 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 A7 |
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 | orangutan |
| Português | orangotango |
| Español | orangután |
| Italiano | orangotango |
| Français | orang-outan |
| Deutsch | Orang-Utan |
| Türkçe | orangutan |
| Bahasa Indonesia | orangutan |
| Polski | orangutan |
| Русский | орангутан |
| 日本語 | オランウータン |
| 한국어 | 오랑우탄 |
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What does the orangutan emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦧 "orangutan" and links it with animal, ape, monkey. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the orangutan emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
How do I type the orangutan emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🦧 when you search for orangutan.