Try Donkey emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Donkey emoji mean?
A donkey in profile, for farms, stubbornness and long uphill work.
Warm and a little teasing. It gets called stubborn far more often than it gets called sweet.
How to use 🫏 naturally
Countryside photos, Nativity plays and gentle insults about being obstinate.
Animal emoji can be literal, affectionate or symbolic. People often use them for pets and wildlife, but also for personality traits, visual themes and private nicknames.
From standard to slang
The history of 🫏
- 2022
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Donkey was first defined as emoji in Emoji 15.0, dated 2022. A modest release continuing the annual cadence.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2023 after years of requests, standing side-on with long ears and a short mane. It arrived in the same release as the moose and the goose, all animals people had asked for repeatedly.
- Today
How its use evolved
Countryside photos, Nativity plays and gentle insults about being obstinate.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🫏 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Refused to move for twenty minutes 🫏
Sanctuary visit, absolutely worth it 🫏
He will not change his mind, ever 🫏
When to use it
Using 🫏 clearly
Countryside photos, Nativity plays and gentle insults about being obstinate. It lands as donkey emoji or 🫏 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the donkey emoji
What does 🫏 mean in a text message?
A donkey in profile, for farms, stubbornness and long uphill work. Warm and a little teasing. It gets called stubborn far more often than it gets called sweet.
Is 🫏 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are donkey emoji, 🫏 meaning, farm animal emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🫏 look different on another device?
U+1FACF identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the donkey emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🫏 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the donkey emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🫏 as emoji in Emoji 15.0, dated 2022. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🫏 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1FACF | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🫏 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🫏 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1FACF | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FACF} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AB%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FACF
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- donkey emoji🫏 meaningfarm animal emoji
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