🦛 Hippopotamus
The 🦛 Hippopotamus emoji (U+1F99B) is part of the Animals category, where it sits in the Mammals group alongside 45 related emojis. It is tagged with the keywords hippo, animal, and river, which captures how people actually use it: when someone wants to express hippo in a message, caption, or comment, 🦛 is one of the glyphs they reach for, and it also carries connotations of animal, and river. Like every emoji, the Hippopotamus renders slightly differently on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft devices because each platform draws its own artwork, but the underlying Unicode code point U+1F99B is identical everywhere, so the meaning travels even when the pixels change. On this page you can copy the 🦛 emoji with one click and paste it into any app that accepts Unicode text — chats, social posts, emails, and documents. Emojis most closely related to 🦛 in the Mammals group include 🐶 Dog Face, 🐱 Cat Face, 🐭 Mouse Face, 🐹 Hamster, 🐰 Rabbit Face, 🦊 Fox, and it is frequently combined with 🐶 Dog Face and 🐱 Cat Face in messages. The Animals category contains 129 emojis in total on Emoji Reference.