🦒U+1F992
Giraffe emoji
A very long neck and brown patches make this giraffe unmistakable. People use it for giraffes, zoos and safaris, African wildlife, and jokes about being tall or having a long neck.
- Unicode name
- giraffe
- Category
- Animals & nature, Mammals
- Added
- Emoji 5.0 in 2017
- Code points
- U+1F992
- Shortcode
:giraffe:- Keywords
- animal, giraffe, spots
How it looks
How to type 🦒
- iPhone and iPad
- Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “giraffe”.
- Android
- In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “giraffe”.
- Mac
- Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “giraffe”.
- Windows
- Press Windows + . (period) and type “giraffe”.
- GitHub
- Type :giraffe: in an issue, pull request or comment.
In other languages
| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español | jirafa | jirafa, manchas |
| Français | girafe | animal, cou, girafe, taches |
| Deutsch | Giraffe | flecken, Flecken, giraffe, Giraffe, tier |
| Italiano | giraffa | animale, animali, giraffa, macchie, puntini, savana, selvaggio, selvatico |
| Português | girafa | animal, girafa |
| Nederlands | giraffe | dier, giraffe, vlekken |
| Svenska | giraff | giraff, prickar |
| Polski | żyrafa | głowa, sawanna, zwierzę, żyrafa |
| Türkçe | zürafa | hayvan, noktalar, puanlar, uzun, zürafa |
| Русский | жираф | длинная шея, животное, жираф, пятна, пятнистый, шея |
| Українська | жирафа | жирафа, плями, тварина |
| Ελληνικά | καμηλοπάρδαλη | καμηλοπάρδαλη, κηλίδες |
| العربية | زرافة | حيوان, زرافة, منقط, نقط |
| עברית | ג׳ירף | בעל חיים, בעלי חיים, ג׳ירף, ג׳ירפה, נקודות |
| فارسی | زرافه | خال, خالخالی, زرافه, لکهلکه, نقطهنقطه |
| हिन्दी | जिराफ़ | जानवर, जिराफ़, धब्बा |
| বাংলা | জিরাফ | জিরাফ, ডট ডট, পশুপাখি, প্রাণী |
| Bahasa Indonesia | jerapah | binatang, bintik, hewan, jerapah |
| Tiếng Việt | hươu cao cổ | đốm, hươu cao cổ |
| ไทย | ยีราฟ | กีฬา, ยีราฟ |
| 日本語 | キリン | キリン, 動物 |
| 한국어 | 기린 | 기린, 동물, 얼룩, 점 |
| 中文（简体） | 长颈鹿 | 斑点, 长颈鹿 |
| 中文（繁體） | 長頸鹿 | 長頸鹿 |
Names in 96 more languages
| Afrikaans | kameelperd |
|---|---|
| Akan | gyirafo |
| Albanian | gjirafë |
| Amharic | ቀጭኔ |
| Anii | abɔrɩ ʊɖɔlamakayar |
| Armenian | ընձուղտ |
| Assamese | জিৰাফ |
| Azerbaijani | zürafə |
| Bashkir | жираф |
| Basque | jirafa |
| Belarusian | жыраф |
| Bosnian | žirafa |
| Breton | jirafenn |
| Bulgarian | жираф |
| Burmese | သစ်ကုလားအုတ် |
| Cantonese | 長頸鹿 |
| Cantonese (Simplified) | 长颈鹿 |
| Catalan | girafa |
| Cherokee | ᏗᎦᎵᏍᏚᎩᏍᎩ |
| Chuvash | жираф |
| Croatian | žirafa |
| Czech | žirafa |
| Danish | giraf |
| Estonian | kaelkirjak |
| Faroese | giraffur |
| Filipino | giraffe |
| Finnish | kirahvi |
| Galician | xirafa |
| Georgian | ჟირაფი |
| Gujarati | જિરાફ |
| Hausa | raƙumin dawa |
| Hungarian | zsiráf |
| Icelandic | gíraffi |
| Igbo | giraafụ |
| Irish | sioráf |
| Javanese | jerapah |
| Kannada | ಜಿರಾಫೆ |
| Kazakh | керік |
| Kazakh (Arabic) | كەرىك |
| Khmer | សត្វកវែង |
| Kinyarwanda | twiga |
| Konkani | जिराफ |
| Kyrgyz | жираф |
| Kʼicheʼ | yuqchikop |
| Lao | ຢີຣາບ |
| Latvian | žirafe |
| Lithuanian | žirafa |
| Lower Sorbian | girafa |
| Luxembourgish | Giraff |
| Macedonian | жирафа |
| Malay | zirafah |
| Malayalam | ജിറാഫ് |
| Maltese | ġiraff |
| Marathi | जिराफ |
| Mongolian | анааш |
| Māori | kakīroa |
| Nepali | जिराफ |
| Nigerian Pidgin | Jiraf |
| Northern Sotho | thutlwa |
| Norwegian | sjiraff |
| Odia | ଜିରାଫ |
| Oromo | sattawwaa |
| Pashto | زرافه |
| Punjabi | ਜਿਰਾਫ਼ |
| Punjabi (Arabic) | زرافہ |
| Quechua | jirafa |
| Romanian | girafă |
| Romansh | giraffa |
| Sardinian | girafa |
| Scottish Gaelic | sioraf |
| Serbian | жирафа |
| Serbian (Latin) | žirafa |
| Shan | ယီးလၢႆးၶေႃးယၢဝ်း |
| Sindhi | جراف |
| Sinhala | ජිරාෆ් |
| Slovak | žirafa |
| Slovenian | žirafa |
| Somali | geri |
| Swahili | twiga |
| Tajik | зарофа |
| Tamil | ஒட்டகச்சிவிங்கி |
| Telugu | జిరాఫీ |
| Tigrinya | ዘራፍ |
| Tongan | silafi |
| Tswana | thutlwa |
| Turkmen | žiraf |
| Upper Sorbian | hłowa girafy |
| Urdu | زرافہ |
| Uyghur | زىراپە |
| Uzbek | jirafa |
| Welsh | jiráff |
| Wolof | giraaf |
| Xhosa | indlulamthi |
| Yoruba | àgùfọn |
| Yoruba (Benin) | àgùfɔn |
| Zulu | indlulamithi |
Codes
- Code points
U+1F992- HTML
🦒- CSS
\1F992- JavaScript, Rust, Swift
\u{1F992}- Python
\U0001F992- UTF-8 bytes
F0 9F A6 92- UTF-16
D83E DD92- URL encoded
%F0%9F%A6%92
Questions
What does the 🦒 giraffe emoji mean?
A very long neck and brown patches make this giraffe unmistakable. People use it for giraffes, zoos and safaris, African wildlife, and jokes about being tall or having a long neck.
How do I type the 🦒 emoji?
On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “giraffe”. 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 :giraffe:.
When was the 🦒 emoji added?
🦒 was added in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017.
What is the Unicode code point for 🦒?
U+1F992. In HTML you can write 🦒, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F992}.