# 🐪 Camel emoji

🐪 Camel is an emoji in the mammals set of Animals & nature. It was added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Related words: animal, desert, dromedary, hump and one.

- Emoji: 🐪
- Unicode name: camel
- Code points: U+1F42A
- Category: Animals & nature, Mammals
- Added: Emoji 1.0 (2015)
- GitHub shortcode: :dromedary_camel:
- Keywords: animal, camel, desert, dromedary, hump, one
- Page: https://emojichart.com/camel-emoji

## What it means

Known as a dromedary, this one-humped camel stands in profile. It is used for camels, deserts and hot-weather travel, and for hump day, a joking name for Wednesday.

## How to type 🐪

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “camel”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “camel”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “camel”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “camel”.
- GitHub: Type :dromedary_camel: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | dromedario | camello, desierto, dromedario, joroba |
| Français (fr) | dromadaire | animal, bosse, désert, dromadaire, une bosse |
| Deutsch (de) | Dromedar | Dromedar, einhöckrig, Kamel, Tier, Wüste |
| Italiano (it) | dromedario | Africa, animale, animali, cammello, deserto, dromedario, gobba, gobbe, trasporto |
| Português (pt) | camelo | animal, camelo, camelo de uma só corcova, corcova, deserto, dromedário |
| Nederlands (nl) | dromedaris | bult, dier, dromedaris, één, kameel, woestijn |
| Svenska (sv) | dromedar | dromedar, puckel |
| Polski (pl) | wielbłąd | dromader, garb, jednogarbny, pustynia, wielbłąd, zwierzę |
| Türkçe (tr) | deve | deve, hayvan, hecin devesi, hörgüç |
| Русский (ru) | одногорбый верблюд | верблюд, горб, дромадер, один, одногорбый верблюд, пустыня |
| Українська (uk) | одногорбий верблюд | верблюд, горб, дромадер, одногорбий, пустеля, Сахара, тварина |
| Ελληνικά (el) | καμήλα | δρομάδα, έρημος, ζώο, καμήλα, καμπούρα, μία καμπούρα |
| العربية (ar) | جمل وحيد السنام | بعير, جمل, جمل وحيد السنام, حردبة, حيوان, سفينة الصحراء, سنام, صحراء |
| עברית (he) | גמל | גמל, דבשת, מדבר |
| فارسی (fa) | شتر | جانور, حیوان, شتر, قوز, کوهان |
| हिन्दी (hi) | ऊँट | ऊँट, ऊंट, एक कुकद, एक कुकद ऊँट, एक कूबड़ वाला ऊँट, कूबड़, पशु |
| বাংলা (bn) | উট | আরবী উট, উট, কুঁজ, পশুপাখি |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | unta | binatang, dromedari, gurun, hewan, punuk, satu, unta |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | lạc đà | cái bướu, con lạc đà, động vật, lạc đà, sa mạc |
| ไทย (th) | อูฐโหนกเดียว | สัตว์, อูฐ, อูฐโหนกเดียว |
| 日本語 (ja) | ラクダ | コブ, ヒトコブラクダ, ラクダ, 動物, 砂漠 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 낙타 | 낙타, 단봉 낙타, 동물, 사막, 혹 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 骆驼 | 单峰, 单峰驼, 沙漠, 驼峰, 骆驼 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 單峰駱駝 | 動物, 單峰駱駝, 駱駝 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): kameel
- Akan (ak): yoma
- Albanian (sq): gamile
- Amharic (am): ግመል
- Anii (blo): raakum
- Armenian (hy): ուղտ
- Assamese (as): উট
- Azerbaijani (az): dəvə
- Bashkir (ba): дөйә
- Basque (eu): gamelua
- Belarusian (be): вярблюд
- Bosnian (bs): kamila
- Breton (br): dremedal
- Bulgarian (bg): камила
- Burmese (my): ကုလားအုတ်
- Cantonese (yue): 駱駝
- Cantonese (Simplified) (yue-Hans): 骆驼
- Catalan (ca): dromedari
- Cherokee (chr): ᎨᎻᎵ
- Chuvash (cv): пӗр курпун тӗве
- Croatian (hr): deva
- Czech (cs): velbloud jednohrbý
- Danish (da): dromedar
- Estonian (et): kaamel
- European Portuguese (pt-PT): dromedário
- Faroese (fo): dromedárur
- Filipino (fil): camel
- Finnish (fi): kameli
- Fula (Adlam) (ff-Adlm): 𞤲𞤺𞤫𞤤𞤮𞥅𞤲𞤦𞤢
- Galician (gl): dromedario
- Georgian (ka): აქლემი
- Gujarati (gu): ઊંટ
- Hausa (ha): raƙumi
- Hungarian (hu): teve
- Icelandic (is): drómedari
- Igbo (ig): inyinya ọ̀zàrà
- Irish (ga): camall
- Javanese (jv): onta
- Kalaallisut (kl): dromedar
- Kannada (kn): ಒಂಟೆ
- Kazakh (kk): түйе
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): تۇيە
- Khmer (km): អូដ្ឋ
- Kinyarwanda (rw): ingamiya
- Konkani (kok): उंट
- Kurdish (ku): hêştir
- Kyrgyz (ky): төө
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): Kamey
- Lao (lo): ອູດ
- Latvian (lv): kamielis
- Lithuanian (lt): kupranugaris
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): dromedar
- Luxembourgish (lb): Dromedar
- Macedonian (mk): камила
- Malay (ms): unta
- Malayalam (ml): ഒട്ടകം
- Maltese (mt): ġemel
- Marathi (mr): उंट
- Mongolian (mn): тэмээ
- Māori (mi): kāmera
- Nepali (ne): ऊँट
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Kámẹl
- Northern Sotho (nso): kamela
- Norwegian (no): dromedar
- Odia (or): ଓଟ
- Oromo (om): gaala
- Pashto (ps): اوښ
- Punjabi (pa): ਊਠ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): اوٹھ
- Quechua (qu): camello
- Romanian (ro): dromader
- Romansh (rm): dromedar
- Sardinian (sc): dromedàriu
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): dromadair
- Serbian (sr): камила
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): kamila
- Shan (shn): မႃႉၵုင်
- Sindhi (sd): اٺ
- Sinhala (si): ඔටුුවා
- Slovak (sk): dromedár
- Slovenian (sl): kamela
- Somali (so): geel
- Swahili (sw): ngamia
- Tajik (tg): шутур
- Tamil (ta): ஒட்டகம்
- Telugu (te): ఒంటె
- Tigrinya (ti): ገመል
- Tongan (to): kāmeli tuʻahulataha
- Tswana (tn): kamela
- Turkmen (tk): düýe
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): dromedar
- Urdu (ur): اونٹ
- Uyghur (ug): تۆگە
- Uzbek (uz): tuya
- Welsh (cy): camel
- Wolof (wo): giléem
- Xhosa (xh): inkamela
- Yoruba (yo): Kẹtẹkẹtẹ
- Yoruba (Benin) (yo-BJ): Kɛtɛkɛtɛ
- Zulu (zu): ikameli

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F42A` |
| HTML | `🐪` |
| CSS | `\1F42A` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F42A}` |
| Python | `\U0001F42A` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F 90 AA` |
| UTF-16 | `D83D DC2A` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%90%AA` |

## Questions

### What does the 🐪 camel emoji mean?

Known as a dromedary, this one-humped camel stands in profile. It is used for camels, deserts and hot-weather travel, and for hump day, a joking name for Wednesday.

### How do I type the 🐪 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “camel”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :dromedary_camel:.

### When was the 🐪 emoji added?

🐪 was added in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🐪?

U+1F42A. In HTML you can write 🐪, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F42A}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/camel-emoji