🦛 Hippopotamus
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Emoji Meaning
1
Depicts a hippopotamus on all fours, facing left. Often used colloquially to describe someone as overweight.
2
A huge gray animal known as a hippopotamus, it has enormous, powerful jaws. In emoji form, it’s usually shown full‑body with its head turned to the left.
This emoji represents the big, barrel-shaped mammal native to Africa, often seen spending time in water. Despite their bulk, hippos are surprisingly very fast. In hand-drawn styles they’re portrayed as cute and frequently appear as cartoon characters. Figuratively, a hippo can symbolize a complete person.
Also Known As
- 🦛 Hippo
Apple Name
- 🦛 Hippopotamus
Unicode Name
- 🦛 Hippopotamus
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🦛 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F99B
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%9B |
| Punycode | xn--rt9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 9B |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDD9B |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f99b |
| CSS | \01F99B |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F99B} |
| Perl | \x{1F99B} |
| HTML hex | 🦛 |
| HTML dec | 🦛 |