Hippopotamus Emoji
This emoji shows a hippopotamus with a gray body, pink snout, and a pink underbelly, facing left. This emoji on Google platform shows a purple hippopotamus head, whereas on Facebook platform, it shows a hippopotamus with an open mouth.
Hippopotamus is a fully-qualified emoji encoded in Unicode 11.0 , and included in Emoji 11.0 in 2018.
This emoji is part of the Animals & Nature and is grouped with other Animal Mammal emojis. Part of the Unicode Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block.
To find this emoji, you can use the following keywords:
- animal
- hippo
- hippopotamus
Copy and paste the Hippopotamus emoji:
- 🦛
Codes & Encoding for the Hippopotamus Emoji
Click any code below to copy it to your clipboard.
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Codepoint
U+1F99B✓ Copied -
HTML (decimal)
🦛✓ Copied -
HTML (hex)
🦛✓ Copied -
CSS
\1F99B✓ Copied -
JavaScript
\u{1F99B}✓ Copied -
URL-encoded
%F0%9F%A6%9B✓ Copied -
Shortcode
:hippopotamus:✓ Copied - Unicode block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
How to Type the Hippopotamus Emoji
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iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
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Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
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Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
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macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
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Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
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Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
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Slack Type :hippopotamus: (autocompletes to the emoji)
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Discord Type :hippopotamus: (autocompletes to the emoji)
Hippopotamus Emoji on Different Platforms
How to Use the Hippopotamus Emoji
- Hippopotamus 🦛 naps all day in the water.
- That hippopotamus 🦛 looks so funny!
- Hippopotamus 🦛 are bigger than they look.
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