U+1F996 "🦖" T-Rex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦖
U+1F996 "🦖" T-Rex is a popular emoji representing a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a large carnivorous dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0, this character depicts the iconic dinosaur in a simplified, cartoon like form, typically shown in green with a large head, tiny arms, and a powerful tail. It is commonly used in digital communication to refer to dinosaurs, prehistoric times, or concepts of strength and extinction, and it has become a beloved symbol in popular culture due to the T. Rex's fearsome yet recognizable appearance in media and scientific lore.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F996 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | T-Rex |
| 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 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F996 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd96 |