🦧 Orangutan
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Emoji Meaning
1
An orangutan — an orange-furred ape with long arms — shown sitting with bent legs and facing forward. On some platforms the image is depicted scratching its head. Be aware: in certain contexts this depiction has been used as a racist insult toward people with darker skin tones.
2
This emoji shows a full-body orangutan with orange fur and large hands. It’s sitting with one hand on its head, as if scratching, and the exact shade of its coat can vary between messaging apps and platforms.
People use it when talking about animals, wildlife, or nature — and it’s perfect for playful teasing too, letting you call someone a monkey in a lighthearted, not-too-offensive way.
Apple Name
- 🦧 Orangutan
Unicode Name
- 🦧 Orangutan
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🦧 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9A7
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%A7 |
| Punycode | xn--3t9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 A7 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDA7 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9a7 |
| CSS | \01F9A7 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9A7} |
| Perl | \x{1F9A7} |
| HTML hex | 🦧 |
| HTML dec | 🦧 |