Animals & Nature · Emoji 5.0
🦓Zebra Emoji
Generally, the zebra emoji means "zebra." It’s used to represent the animal directly.
The zebra emoji (🦓) represents the animal itself – a zebra!
- Unicode
- U+1F993
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :zebra_
face: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🦓 Zebra emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Zebra emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F993. 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
Zebra 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 :zebra_face:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F993.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🦓 Zebra emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Zebra emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the zebra as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Zebra emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around zebra 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
Beyond stripes and safaris, this one has a real second life in medicine and rare-disease advocacy worth knowing about.
“Think horses, not zebras” means don't assume the rare diagnosis, so it can symbolize an overlooked answer.
Adopted as the mascot for undiagnosed and rare conditions, used with real weight in support groups.
Slang for referees or umpires because of their striped shirts.
Before you send it: Neutral for casual use; in health-related chats it can carry real meaning tied to rare-disease advocacy.
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 — History
Where the 🦓 Zebra emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 5.0, the zebra has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 9.
Same character every time — U+1F993 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.
Zebra was approved as U+1F993 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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.
12 — FAQ