gorilla Emoji
🦍 · U+1F98D · Emoji 3.0
What does the gorilla emoji mean?
Fierce and powerful, the 🦍 emoji literally represents a gorilla, a large primate native to Africa, and is often used figuratively to convey strength, aggression, or intimidation, while in slang, it can also represent someone who is strong, muscular, or dominant, and is sometimes used to describe a person who is being overly aggressive or confrontational in a situation.
gorilla emoji examples
- just saw a huge gorilla at the zoo 🦍
- you're such a gorilla on the basketball court 🦍
How to copy the gorilla emoji
To use the gorilla emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F98D), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
Also known as
gorilla emoji on different platforms
How the gorilla emoji looks on your device and in the openly licensed sets that include it (Twitter / X (Twemoji), Google Noto Color Emoji, OpenMoji). See image credits.
gorilla Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🦍 |
| Name | gorilla |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Codepoints | U+1F98D |
| Shortcode | :gorilla: |
| Sources | Unicode emoji list · codepoints.net |
| Emoji version | 3.0 (2016) |
gorilla Emoji FAQ
It is U+1F98D, added in Emoji 3.0 (2016). On GitHub, Slack and Discord you can type it as :gorilla:.
People also search for the gorilla emoji as animal.