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🐸Frog Emoji
🐸 frog is encoded at U+1F438 and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Animals & Nature → Amphibians, alongside 0 related emojis.
What 🐸 frog means
Unicode's amphibian category holds exactly one character, 🐸 frog, and its everyday meaning has almost nothing to do with wetlands. Paired with a teacup it carries the Kermit “but that's none of my business” shrug; on its own it reads as smug, silly or deliberately ugly-cute. It also picked up political baggage through the Pepe meme, which is worth knowing before using it.
Unicode tags this one animal, face and files it under Animals & Nature → Amphibians.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F438 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐸 | |
| HTML decimal | 🐸 | |
| CSS | \1F438 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F438} | |
| Python | \U0001F438 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC38 | |
| Rust | \u{1f438} | |
| Swift | \u{1F438} | |
| PHP | \u{1F438} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%90%B8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 B8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC38 | |
| Base64 | 8J+QuA== | |
| Decimal | 128056 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- animal
- face
Appears in these collections
How to type 🐸
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “frog”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f438and Enter. - HTML — paste
🐸.
How 🐸 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🐸Apple
- 🐸Segoe
- 🐸Noto
- 🐸System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🐸 frog emoji mean?+
🐸 is the frog emoji, tagged animal, face. Unicode's amphibian category holds exactly one character, 🐸 frog, and its everyday meaning has almost nothing to do with wetlands. Paired with a teacup it carries the Kermit “but that's none of my business” shrug; on its own it reads as smug, silly or deliberately ugly-cute. It also picked up political baggage through the Pepe meme, which is worth knowing before using it.
What is the Unicode code for 🐸?+
frog is U+1F438. In HTML that is 🐸, in CSS \1F438, and in JavaScript \u{1F438}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐸 emoji added?+
frog got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Amphibians in Animals & Nature.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🐸 frog.