U+1F99B "🦛" Hippopotamus Unicode Character

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."