Giraffe
🦒 is the giraffe emoji, part of Unicode's Animals & Nature group, added in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Unicode's keyword list links it with “animal” and “spots”.
Where animal-mammal emoji usually appear
DBEmoji editorial interpretationApplies to every emoji in this Unicode subgroup, not only this one.
- Pet photos, wildlife posts, and zoo trips
- Standing in for the animal itself in a caption
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- Unicode name
- GIRAFFE FACE
- CLDR short name
- giraffe
- Codepoint
- U+1F992
- Hex
- 1F992
- Emoji version
- 5.0
- Unicode version
- 10.0
- First released
- 2017
- Unicode group
- Animals & Nature
- Unicode subgroup
- animal-mammal
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
GitHub shortcode
From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.
:giraffe:Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRanimal · giraffe · spots
Tags
How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
Download as image
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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork
Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of 🦒. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.
Questions people ask
- What does the 🦒 giraffe emoji mean?
- 🦒 is the giraffe emoji, part of Unicode's Animals & Nature group, added in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Unicode's keyword list links it with “animal” and “spots”.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🦒?
- U+1F992, named GIRAFFE FACE in the Unicode Standard.
- When was the 🦒 giraffe emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 5.0, published in 2017, alongside Unicode 10.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 🦒 on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “giraffe”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🦒 from this page with one click.
- What is the shortcode for 🦒?
- On GitHub, type :giraffe: and it turns into 🦒 — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.