U+1F98D "🦍" Gorilla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦍
U+1F98D "🦍" Gorilla is a pictographic representation of a large, powerful great ape native to the forests of central Africa, recognized by its robust build, broad chest, and prominent brow ridge. This emoji is part of the Unicode 9.0 standard released in 2016 and belongs to the "Animals and Nature" category within the "Animals Mammal" subgroup. It is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize strength, wildness, or the animal itself, and it can also appear in discussions about conservation, zoology, or as a playful reference to the fictional character King Kong.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F98D |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Gorilla |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA6 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F98D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd8d |