Animals & Nature · Emoji 5.0
🦖T-Rex Emoji
Generally, the 🦖 emoji means a T-Rex dinosaur. People use it to add emphasis or to show something is impressive, dangerous, or just plain cool.
The 🦖 emoji represents a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a huge, extinct dinosaur.
- Unicode
- U+1F996
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :t-
rex: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🦖 T-Rex emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
People also look for it as dinosaur emoji, rex emoji.
02 — Platforms
T-Rex emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F996. 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
T-Rex emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :t-rex:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F996.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🦖 T-Rex emoji
No picker to hand? The t-rex can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
T-Rex 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
T-Rex emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around t-rex 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What 🦖 means in other countries
Pure pop-culture fun tied to dinosaurs and Jurassic Park, plus a self-deprecating joke about short arms.
Used for dinosaur enthusiasm generally or specific Jurassic Park references.
‘T-rex arms’ is a self-deprecating joke about dancing with short reach.
Before you send it: No caution needed; it reads as playful pop-culture fun in any casual context, from kids’ chat to memes.
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: T-Rex
Code: U+1F996 · added 2017
Shortcode: :t-rex:
Generally, the 🦖 emoji means a T-Rex dinosaur.
Unicode name: Grinning Face with Big Eyes
Code: U+1F603 · added 2010
Shortcode: :smiley:
Generally, 😃 means someone is happy and excited.
12 — History
Where the 🦖 T-Rex emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 5.0, the t-rex has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 9.
Same character every time — U+1F996 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.
T-Rex was approved as U+1F996 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.
13 — FAQ