U+1F99B "🦛" Hippopotamus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦛
U+1F99B "🦛" Hippopotamus is a digital emoji and pictograph representing the large, semi-aquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of Emoji 11.0 in 2018, providing a standardized visual symbol for the hippopotamus across different platforms and devices. It is commonly used in digital communication to reference the animal itself, its characteristic traits like its size and aquatic lifestyle, or figuratively to convey concepts such as bulkiness, water dependency, or the expression "hungry as a hippo."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F99B |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Hippopotamus |
| 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 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F99B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd9b |