U+1F42A "🐪" Dromedary Camel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F42A "🐪" Dromedary Camel is a pictographic representation of a one humped camel, also known as a dromedary, which is native to arid regions of North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. This emoji is typically used in digital communication to symbolize desert landscapes, long distance travel, or resilience in harsh environments. It belongs to the Unicode Emoji category of animals and nature, and its design often depicts the camel in a walking or standing pose with a prominent single hump, distinguishing it from the two humped Bactrian camel represented by a separate character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F42A |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Dromedary Camel |
| 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 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F42A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc2a |