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🦛Hippopotamus Emoji
🦛 is the hippopotamus emoji, U+1F99B, one of 66 in the Mammals set. It arrived with Emoji 11.0 (2018) and is commonly used for animal, hippo.
What 🦛 hippopotamus means
Pets and wildlife carry most of the traffic here: 🐶 and 🐱 stand in for the animal you actually own, 🐻 and 🐨 work as plain affection, and 🦄 marks anything improbably rare, including a billion-dollar startup. The family's biggest drift is 🐐, which now almost always means greatest of all time. 🐻❄️ polar bear and 🐈⬛ black cat are ZWJ sequences added in Emoji 13.0.
Unicode tags this one animal, hippo and files it under Animals & Nature → Mammals.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F99B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🦛 | |
| HTML decimal | 🦛 | |
| CSS | \1F99B | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F99B} | |
| Python | \U0001F99B | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD9B | |
| Rust | \u{1f99b} | |
| Swift | \u{1F99B} | |
| PHP | \u{1F99B} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A6%9B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 9B | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD9B | |
| Base64 | 8J+mmw== | |
| Decimal | 129435 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
- animal
- hippo
How to type 🦛
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “hippopotamus”. - 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 type1f99band 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 🦛 hippopotamus emoji mean?+
🦛 is the hippopotamus emoji, tagged animal, hippo. Pets and wildlife carry most of the traffic here: 🐶 and 🐱 stand in for the animal you actually own, 🐻 and 🐨 work as plain affection, and 🦄 marks anything improbably rare, including a billion-dollar startup. The family's biggest drift is 🐐, which now almost always means greatest of all time. 🐻❄️ polar bear and 🐈⬛ black cat are ZWJ sequences added in Emoji 13.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🦛?+
hippopotamus is U+1F99B. In HTML that is 🦛, in CSS \1F99B, and in JavaScript \u{1F99B}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🦛 emoji added?+
hippopotamus got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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 Mammals in Animals & Nature.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🦛 hippopotamus.