🐘Elephant Emoji
Generally, the 🐘 emoji just means an elephant. People use it to represent the animal itself, or to add a bit of humor or emphasis to a message.
The 🐘 emoji represents an elephant.
- Unicode
- U+1F418
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :elephant:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐘 Elephant emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 1 of them.
Elephant emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F418. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Elephant emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :elephant:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the elephant, code point U+1F418.
How to type the 🐘 Elephant emoji
No picker to hand? The elephant can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Elephant emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the elephant as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Elephant emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around elephant for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐘, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐘 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the elephant and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🐘 means in other countries
Sacred in South Asia, a US political symbol elsewhere, and an idiom for an obvious unspoken problem in English.
Sacred and lucky, tied to the god Ganesha, used in celebrations rather than as a plain animal reference.
The Republican Party's mascot, so it can read as a political statement in that context.
“Elephant in the room” means an obvious problem nobody wants to mention.
Before you send it: Fine generally; think twice before using it in a US political conversation, since it reads as a party symbol there.
What 🐘 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F418, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🐘 Elephant emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F418 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🐘 existed there as
KDDI au EB1F, SoftBank E526.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Elephant was approved as U+1F418 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐘 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.