🦛️ Hippopotamus emoji

What is 🦛️ called?

🦛️ is called the Hippopotamus emoji.

What does 🦛️ mean?

🦛 is officially named hippopotamus. It represents a hippopotamus, showing the large, semi-aquatic mammal known for spending time in water. Hippos are powerful, surprisingly dangerous animals that represent aquatic life, African rivers, territorial behavior, and the deceptive nature of these seemingly docile but actually formidable creatures.

Use it for literal references to hippopotamus, and for aquatic mammals, African rivers, territorial behavior, surprising danger. The surrounding words should make literal, figurative, cultural, or seasonal intent clear. Related choices include 🦏 Rhinoceros and 🐭 Mouse face.

Other meanings

It can mean aquatic mammals, African rivers, territorial behavior, surprising danger. Context determines whether the message is literal, symbolic, culinary, seasonal, humorous, or cultural.

Example Usage

Hippos are surprisingly one of Africa’s most dangerous animals 🦛

Learning more about the hippopotamus today 🦛

More details

Officially named hippopotamus. Its code point is U+1F99B. It was introduced in Emoji 11.0. “River horse” reflects the Greek-derived name, but a hippopotamus is not a horse and is only semi-aquatic.

Related emoji

Large mammals emojis

• 🦙️ Llama
• 🦒️ Giraffe
• 🐘️ Elephant
• 🦏️ Rhinoceros

Visual description

A hippopotamus with characteristic large mouth, barrel-shaped body, and features adapted for semi-aquatic life.

“River horse” reflects the Greek-derived name, but a hippopotamus is not a horse and is only semi-aquatic. Colours, proportions, pose, and fine details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.