U+1F992 "🦒" Giraffe Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦒
U+1F992 "🦒" Giraffe Face is a pictographic representation of the head of a giraffe, typically depicted in a forward-facing or slightly angled view with its distinctive elongated neck, ossicones, and large gentle eyes. Released as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to the Emoji 3.0 standard, this character is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize the animal itself, or to convey themes of height, curiosity, grace, and the savanna ecosystem. Its design varies slightly across different platforms but retains the universally recognizable features of the giraffe's face.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F992 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Giraffe Face |
| 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 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD92 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F992 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd92 |