๐ฆ Hippopotamus
Emoji Meaning
A hippopotamus, a squat water mammal with huge jaws. Generally depicted in gray or tan in full profile facing left.
Google’s design used to feature a purple, cartoon-styled hippopotamus face. Facebook’s hippopotamus is opening massive jaws, revealing tusks.
Hippopotamus was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 in 2018.
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Also Known As
- ๐ฆ Hippo
Apple Name
๐ฆ Hippopotamus
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :hippopotamus: (Github, Slack, Emojipedia)
See also
- ๐ฆฌ Bison
- ๐ Crocodile
- ๐ Globe Showing Europe-Africa
- ๐ Elephant
- ๐ฟ๐ฒ Flag: Zambia
- ๐ฆ Giraffe
- ๐ฆ Gorilla
- ๐ Leopard
- ๐ฆ Lion
- ๐ Monkey
- ๐ Ox
- ๐ Pig
- ๐ฆ Rhinoceros
- ๐ Water Buffalo
- ๐ Whale
- ๐ฆ Zebra
Browse
- ๐ฆ on Instagram
- ๐ฆ on Twitter
- ๐ฆ on Wikipedia
- ๐ฆ on Yelp
- ๐ฆ on YouTube
- ๐ฆ on Google Trends
- ๐ฆ on Nomad List
Proposals
- ๐ฆ Hippopotamus Emoji Proposal: L2/17-263