🐼Panda Emoji
Generally, the 🐼 emoji just means “cute panda! ” People use it to lighten the mood or show they find something adorable.
The 🐼 emoji represents a giant panda bear.
- Unicode
- U+1F43C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :panda_face:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐼 Panda emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
People also look for it as bamboo emoji.
Panda emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the panda has been drawn in 3 ways.
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.
Panda emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :panda_face:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F43C.
How to type the 🐼 Panda emoji
No picker to hand? The panda can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Panda emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the panda 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
Panda emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around panda 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 panda and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🐼 means in other countries
A globally beloved animal closely tied to China’s national identity and its practice of “panda diplomacy”.
National symbol, closely tied to gifting pandas to allied countries as a diplomatic gesture.
Recognized worldwide as the WWF logo and an endangered-species symbol.
Generic “cute and chubby” compliment, unrelated to its national symbolism.
Before you send it: Safe everywhere — it reads as positive in essentially every context it shows up in.
What 🐼 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F43C, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🐼 Panda 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+1F43C 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 EB46.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Panda was approved as U+1F43C 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.