Animals & Nature · Emoji 13.0
🦣Mammoth Emoji
Generally, the 🦣 emoji just means “mammoth.” People use it as a visual representation of the animal.
The 🦣 emoji represents a woolly mammoth.
- Unicode
- U+1F9A3
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :mammoth:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🦣 Mammoth emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Mammoth emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9A3 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your mammoth looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Mammoth 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 :mammoth:.
All emoji copy and paste →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+1F9A3.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🦣 Mammoth emoji
No picker to hand? The mammoth can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Mammoth emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the mammoth 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
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Mammoth emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mammoth 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
Mostly used to mean “huge” or “ancient,” with a literal use in paleontology and de-extinction news alongside it.
Used to mean “huge” or “old-fashioned,” as in a mammoth task or a mammoth bill.
Literal reference to the extinct species, common in paleontology and de-extinction news.
Before you send it: Safe as a size exaggeration; no real cultural landmines to watch for here.
09 — Apps
What 🦣 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the mammoth lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the 🦣 Mammoth emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 13.0, the mammoth has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 6.
Same character every time — U+1F9A3 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.
Mammoth was approved as U+1F9A3 and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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