🦛Hippopotamus Emoji
Generally, the 🦛 emoji just means “hippopotamus. ” It’s often used for fun or to represent the animal itself, not necessarily a deep meaning.
The 🦛 emoji represents a hippopotamus.
- Unicode
- U+1F99B
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :hippopotamus:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦛 Hippopotamus emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
People also look for it as hippo emoji.
Hippopotamus emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the hippopotamus 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.
Hippopotamus 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 :hippopotamus:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the hippopotamus, code point U+1F99B.
How to type the 🦛 Hippopotamus emoji
No picker to hand? The hippopotamus can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Hippopotamus 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
Hippopotamus emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hippopotamus 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🦛 means in other countries
Mostly a cute or clumsy-looking size joke online, despite being one of the more dangerous animals in the wild.
Mostly used as a cute or clumsy-looking size joke, with no strong secondary meaning.
Reference to a genuinely dangerous animal, despite its harmless internet image.
Before you send it: Low-risk pick; use it for playful “big and slow” jokes without worrying about being misread.
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 🦛 Hippopotamus emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F99B 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.
Hippopotamus was approved as U+1F99B and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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.