U+1F428 "🐨" Koala Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐨
U+1F428 "🐨" Koala is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, encoded to represent a koala as a graphical emoji. It depicts a gray, tree-dwelling marsupial with a large nose, round ears, and a calm expression, often used to symbolize the animal itself, wildlife conservation, or Australian culture. The character was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and has since become a staple in digital communication for conveying cuteness, sleepiness, or a connection to nature and eucalyptus forests.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F428 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Koala |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🐨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🐨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F428 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc28 |