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, part of Unicode 11.0 , introduced in 2018, and was added to Emoji 11.0 .
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. Introduced in 2018.
To find this emoji, you can use the following keywords:
Copy and paste the Hippopotamus emoji:
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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.