hippopotamus Emoji

The hippopotamus 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 — 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, hippopotamus is the 93rd of 160 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 11 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+1F99B.

💡 Good to know: This category is one of the most visually consistent across platforms compared to more stylized categories, since most vendors aim for recognizable, naturalistic animal and plant illustrations.