Animals & Nature · Emoji 15.0
🫏Donkey Emoji
Generally, when someone sends the 🫏 emoji, they’re just referencing the donkey itself. It’s often used to add a bit of humor or a visual element to a conversation.
The 🫏 emoji is a donkey.
- Unicode
- U+1FACF
- Released
- 2022
- Shortcode
- :donkey:
- Skin tones
- No
Added in Emoji 15.0. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🫏 Donkey emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Donkey emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FACF. 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
Donkey 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 :donkey:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the donkey, code point U+1FACF.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🫏 Donkey emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FACF when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Donkey 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
Donkey emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around donkey 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
Who sent the donkey and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What 🫏 means in other countries
Across several languages calling someone a donkey is a common insult for stupidity, not just a barnyard reference.
Calling someone a donkey (himar) is a common, sharp insult for stupidity.
“Burro” is used the same way, an everyday put-down for being slow or stubborn.
“Stubborn as a donkey” is milder, about persistence rather than intelligence.
Plain, literal reference to the working animal, no insult intended.
Before you send it: Avoid using it to react to something a friend said; in several languages it reads as calling them stupid.
09 — Apps
What 🫏 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the donkey lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the 🫏 Donkey emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 15.0, the donkey has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 4.
Same character every time — U+1FACF 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.
Donkey was approved as U+1FACF and shipped in Emoji 15.0 (2022). 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