🦏Rhinoceros Emoji
Generally, when someone uses the 🦏 emoji, they mean they’re being slow or taking a long time. It's a visual way to express that feeling.
The 🦏 emoji is a rhinoceros.
- Unicode
- U+1F98F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :rhinoceros:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦏 Rhinoceros emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Rhinoceros emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F98F. 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.
Rhinoceros 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 :rhinoceros:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the rhinoceros, code point U+1F98F.
How to type the 🦏 Rhinoceros emoji
No picker to hand? The rhinoceros can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Rhinoceros 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.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Rhinoceros emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around rhinoceros 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🦏 means in other countries
Read literally almost everywhere, though the horn occasionally gets used as a mild, juvenile innuendo in casual chat.
Sometimes used as a juvenile pun on the horn, similar to eggplant-style innuendo but far less common.
Tied heavily to anti-poaching and endangered-species campaigns.
Before you send it: Generally fine to send; in flirty contexts some people read the horn as a wink, so read the room.
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.
Where the 🦏 Rhinoceros emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F98F 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.
Rhinoceros was approved as U+1F98F and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.