| Emoji | ๐ฆ |
| Name | deer |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F98C |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Subcategory | Animal Mammal |
| Emoji Version | 3 |
| Tags | animal |
| Decimal Value | 129420 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F98C |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🦌 / 🦌 |
The deer emoji represents an animal, plant, or natural phenomenon, commonly used literally (talking about the actual animal or plant) or figuratively as a personality/mood reference (many animals carry informal symbolic associations in casual conversation).
Category context: The Animals & Nature category spans wildlife, pets, insects, marine life, plants, and weather โ among the most globally recognizable and culturally neutral emoji, since animals and nature are common reference points across languages.
Cataloged under Animal Mammal within the Animals & Nature category, deer is the 85th of 160 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 3 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F98C.
๐ก Good to know: For educational or scientific content, pairing this emoji with the actual species or term name avoids ambiguity, since emoji renderings can be stylized rather than scientifically precise.