🦛
Animals & Nature
hippopotamus emoji
Hippo — surprisingly dangerous, African waterways, and the Hungry Hungry Hippos game.
Unicode data
| Character | 🦛 |
| Codepoint | U+1F99B |
| Unicode name | HIPPOPOTAMUS |
| Added in | Unicode 11.0 |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Subcategory | animal-mammal |
| HTML entity | 🦛 |
| Shortcode | :hippopotamus: |
Platform support
Apple / iOS✓ Supported
Google / Android✓ Supported
Twitter / X (Twemoji)✓ Supported
Platform designs vary — the same codepoint renders differently on iOS, Android, and web. Twemoji is the open-source reference used on this site (CC BY 4.0).
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