orangutan Emoji

The orangutan 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, orangutan is the 99th of 160 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 12 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+1F9A7.

💡 Good to know: Weather and nature emoji from this category are commonly used in casual conversation to reference actual current conditions — a practical, literal use case alongside their symbolic uses.