Messaging about zoo animals and river wildlife
Messaging about zoo animals and river wildlife.
Animals & Nature
🦛 Hippopotamus Emoji
The 🦛 Hippopotamus emoji depicts a heavy gray hippo, commonly used for river wildlife, heavy strength, zoo trips, or relaxed aquatic animals.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Hippopotamus
- Category
- Animals & Nature
- Subcategory
- Animal Mammal
- Unicode
- U+1F99B
- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Unicode version
- 17.0
What Does Mean?
The 🦛 Hippopotamus emoji represents the hippo, a large semi-aquatic African mammal. It is sent when messaging about zoo visits, river wildlife documentaries, water relaxation, or heavy physical weight.
Quick Meaning
The 🦛 Hippopotamus emoji depicts a heavy gray hippo, commonly used for river wildlife, heavy strength, zoo trips, or relaxed aquatic animals.
Use Cases
How People Use 🦛
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Referencing soaking in water or relaxing poolside
Referencing soaking in water or relaxing poolside.
Discussing African wildlife habitats
Discussing African wildlife habitats.
Real Messages
🦛 Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 🦛.
“Hippo resting in the water at the zoo 🦛”
“Soaking in the pool all afternoon 🦛”
“Watching river wildlife documentaries 🦛”
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Lookup Data
Names, Keywords and Search Terms
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Official Name
Hippopotamus
Subcategory: Animal MammalAliases & Common Names
- hippo
- hippopotamus
Keywords & Search Terms
- hippopotamus
- hippo
- river
- water
- wildlife
- zoo
- animal
Developer Reference
🦛 Emoji Codes
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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F99BCode points
U+1F99BUTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x9BUTF-16
\uD83E\uDD9BHTML decimal entity
🦛HTML hexadecimal entity
🦛JavaScript escape
\u{1F99B}CSS escape
\1F99B Python string
\U0001F99BEmoji Styles
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
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FAQ
Questions About 🦛
Frequently asked questions about meaning, copying, PNG export, and Unicode data.
The 🦛 Hippopotamus emoji depicts a heavy gray hippo, commonly used for river wildlife, heavy strength, zoo trips, or relaxed aquatic animals.
Yes. When licensed artwork is available, choose a style and download 1× (128×128), 2× (256×256), 4× (512×512), or 8× (1024×1024) PNG artwork. EmojiMint shows the selected provider, background, and exact pixel dimensions before download.
🦛 represents Hippopotamus. It is used for wildlife, nature discussions, pets, and symbolic messaging.
The Unicode code point for 🦛 is U+1F99B.
🦛 is usually the more general choice. 🦏 Rhinoceros is different because includes large snout horns.
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