🦛 Hippopotamus is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F99B and it was released in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🦛 Hippopotamus mean?
🦛 is the Hippopotamus emoji, listed under Animals & Nature → Mammals in the Unicode emoji standard. You will see it in chats and captions related to animal and hippo. It was approved as part of Emoji 11.0 in 2018 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :hippopotamus: to insert it.
Hippopotamus emoji codes
| Emoji | 🦛 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F99B |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🦛 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🦛 |
| CSS | \1F99B |
| JavaScript | \u{1F99B} |
| Python | \U0001F99B |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%9B |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 9B |
| Shortcode | :hippopotamus: |
How to type 🦛 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “hippopotamus”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “hippopotamus”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “hippo”.
- HTML: write
🦛in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Hippopotamus keywords
- animal
- hippo
Frequently asked questions
What does 🦛 mean?
🦛 is the Hippopotamus emoji, listed under Animals & Nature → Mammals in the Unicode emoji standard. You will see it in chats and captions related to animal and hippo. It was approved as part of Emoji 11.0 in 2018 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :hippopotamus: to insert it.
How do I copy and paste the Hippopotamus emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🦛 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🦛 Hippopotamus added to Unicode?
Hippopotamus was released as part of Emoji 11.0 in 2018.
Related Mammals emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.