Animals & Nature · Emoji 0.6
🐫Two-hump Camel Emoji
Generally, the camel emoji means “adventure,” “travel,” or “something difficult.” It’s often used to express enthusiasm for exploring or overcoming obstacles.
The 🐫 emoji represents a camel, specifically a two-humped camel.
- Unicode
- U+1F42B
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :camel:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🐫 Two-hump Camel emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Two-hump Camel emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F42B. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Two-hump Camel emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :camel:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F42B.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🐫 Two-hump Camel emoji
No picker to hand? The two-hump camel can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Two-hump Camel emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Two-hump Camel emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around two-hump camel for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🐫 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Around the world
What 🐫 means in other countries
Reads as the specific two-hump species rather than carrying any slang, mostly showing up in wildlife or heritage content.
A recognized national and cultural symbol, appearing on currency and in folklore.
Mostly used to distinguish the Bactrian species from the single-hump dromedary.
Before you send it: No real friction here; it reads as the specific species rather than carrying extra slang.
09 — Apps
What 🐫 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 — Difference
🐫 vs 💕 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Two-hump Camel
Code: U+1F42B · added 2010
Shortcode: :camel:
Generally, the camel emoji means “adventure,” “travel,” or “something difficult.”
Unicode name: Two Hearts
Code: U+1F495 · added 2010
Shortcode: :two_hearts:
Generally, it means someone feels love or affection towards you.
12 — History
Where the 🐫 Two-hump Camel 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+1F42B 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 EB25, SoftBank E530.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Two-hump Camel was approved as U+1F42B 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.
13 — FAQ